It’s now time to say hello, officially, to the four new additions to the Periodic Table of Elements. This week, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) approved the names of the ...

It’s official: Four new names have been added to the periodic table of elements. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry organization stated Wednesday that it had approved the name and ...

Four new elements now have names. In December, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially recognized the discovery of elements 113, 115, 117 and 118, filling out the seventh row ...

The periodic table just got bigger. Four new elements have been recognized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, which is the U.S.-based world authority on chemistry. These four ...

The periodic table is like a map that organizes elements based on their atomic structure and properties. It helps scientists and students study and understand the vast variety of elements and how they ...

CORRECTION: On Jan. 7, 2016, this story was changed to correct the atomic number for livermorium and to clarify that IUPAC was the group that gave temporary names to the new elements. With the ...

For scientists who discover a new element, beating their peers is only part of the fun. The real thrill comes in selecting the element's name. Sure, other scientists get to name their discoveries, too ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...