Physicists have reported synthesizing element 117, the latest achievement in their quest to create “superheavy” elements in the laboratory.

Scientists report they have created the especially shifty superheavy element 117, a milestone for nuclear chemistry that now completes the seventh row of the periodic table. The discovery, which ...

Scientists have discovered a new heavyweight to be added to the Periodic Table of Elements. The new element, which is yet to be named, is temporarily known as Element 117.

Element 117, first discovered by Lawrence Livermor e scientists and international collaborators in 2010, is one step closer to being named.

Scientists have successfully created a new super-heavy element called 117. The element matches some of the heaviest atoms ever observed and is around 40 percent heavier than a single atom of lead.

The lifetime of element 117, which has now been created in the lab for the first time, confirms that superheavy elements lie in an island of stability on the periodic table.

A heavy element has been confirmed by experiments with a particle collider in Europe and will take its rightful place as Element 117 in the periodic table, physicists say. At a collider in Germany ...

Element 117 looks set to claim the highest slot yet on the periodic table, thanks to an experiment in Germany that has independently confirmed its existence. In the process, the team also glimpsed ...

Element 117, first discovered by Lawrence Livermore scientists and international collaborators in 2002, is one step closer to being named.

Element 117 -- a superheavy element discovered in 2010 by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore lab in California -- is now confirmed, and may soon be named.