The initial four atoms of element 115 were enough to signify a discovery, but not enough to earn it an official spot on the periodic table of elements. However, the successful duplication could be ...

Greg Robson A new element may soon join the periodic table: an international team of researchers announced this week that they have confirmed the existence of Ununpentium, elusive element 115.

Thanks to the work of chemists at Lund University in Sweden, a brand new element has taken a seat at the periodic table: Element 115, or ununpentium (Uup) as it is currently known.

Element 115, scientists are on to you. Physicists at Lund University in Sweden announced Tuesday that they have new evidence that you exist. Here’s what they said they know: - You are “super ...

Element 115 will join its neighbors 114 and 116-flerovium and livermorium, respectively-on the periodic table just as soon as a committee from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ...

Rudolph’s team created element 115 by aiming a beam of calcium ions at an americium target. Sifting through the jumble of photons, particles, and atoms that results from such an experiment, the ...

Once complete, element 115 will be given an official name and added to the periodic table of elements, right in between flerovium (114) and livermorium (116), which were added to the periodic ...

According to physicist Bob Lazar, “Element 115” is the fuel source for an alien spacecraft he was hired to reverse-engineer by the U.S. government – and if we can harness its awesome power ...

Until then, element 115 will have to live with the unwieldy nickname of “ununpentium,” which, NBC News explains, is roughly based on the Latin and Greek words for the digits in its atomic number.

And with 115 protons, this new element earns the moniker "super-heavy element." For the sake of comparison, an atom of lead only has 82 protons. Gold has just 79.

The Swedish research team was not the first to create element 115. As long ago as 2004, a team of American and Russian scientists led by S.N. Dmitriev at Russia’s Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear ...