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Also back is our favorite narrator, Robert Clotworthy. Episode 1203 of Ancient Aliens airs tonight and is entitled “Element 115.” This episode posits that a “super heavy element” may ...
Scientists say they've created a handful of atoms of the elusive element 115, which occupies a mysterious corner of the periodic table. The super-heavy element has yet to be officially named ...
It isn’t carbon, it isn’t nickel, it sure as heck ain’t gold — it doesn’t even have a formal name. But never mind that. The newly created superheavy element, announced today in a paper ...
A team of Lund researchers is the second to successfully create atoms of element 115. Officials from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry will now review the experiment to ...
Element 115, or ununpentium (Uup) as it is currently known. Ununpentium (which is sadly just the Latin/Greek for "115," not a homage to the Intel CPU) is one of the heaviest elements ever created ...
(Related: Learn how to make an element.) The man-made 115 was first created by Russian scientists in Dubna about ten years ago. This week, chemists at Lund University in Sweden announced that they ...
elusive element 115. Although the element was first reported in 2004, researchers have had trouble getting it to stick around long enough to prove its existence. Part of the difficulty of ...
If you've looked at the periodic table of elements recently, there's a good chance element number 115 was filled in. But it's not an official member of the club. The element, known as ununpentium ...
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 ...
Researchers in Sweden have confirmed the existence of element 115. It sticks around for a surprisingly long time. Scientists believe it may bring them closer to the mythical "island of stability ...
That flash, or “fingerprint,” confirmed the existence of an element with 115 protons at its center. That would give it the atomic number of 115 on the periodic table, the list of all elements ...