Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. After a five month public review, the chemical element Ununtrium with the atomic number of 113 will be re-named “nihonium” due ...

A group of Japanese scientists announced Wednesday that they have finally synthesized the elusive element 113, which has been called ununtrium. If confirmed, the feat would mark the first time ...

The Japanese scientists who discovered atomic element 113 dubbed it “nihonium” — “nihon” meaning Japan in Japanese — on Wednesday evening, the Japan Times reports. Led by Kyushu ...

The four new elements include nihonium, the first ever to be found by Japanese scientists. That element – which until recently was referred to to as 113 – got its proper name from the word for ...

A Japanese research team has been granted the right to name new element 113, the first on the periodic table to be named by Asian scientists, the team's institute said Thursday. Japan's Riken ...

Tokyo, Dec 31 (AP) A world scientific body says Japanese scientists have met the criteria for naming a new element, the synthetic highly radioactive element 113. The US-based International Union ...