New Progress Toward the Discovery of New Elements
Department of Energy, Office of ScienceResearchers recently created two atoms of livermorium (element 116) using a new approach that offers a path to discovering even heavier elements. This brings scientists closer to creating a new element with 120 protons, which would push the boundaries of the periodic table to a new eighth row and move closer to the 鈥渋sland of stability.鈥