NEW YORK (AP) — Three recently discovered chemical elements will be named after Moscow, Japan and Tennessee under a recommendation by an international scientific group. A fourth name honors a Russian ...

NEW YORK (AP) — You’ll soon see four new names on the periodic table of the elements, including three that honor Moscow, Japan and Tennessee. The names are among four recommended Wednesday by an ...

Four new chemical elements have official names and symbols, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry recently announced. After a five-month review, IUPAC chemists have approved the names ...

After months of review, the world’s authority on chemical names has approved the official labels for four extremely rare elements at the bottom of the periodic table. This week’s decision from the ...

Of all the things humans can bestow names upon, new chemical elements are about the rarest. Our group of periodic table experts attempts to read the tea leaves and predict the names for elements 113, ...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially approved the four proposed element names on November 28, 2016. Discovering a new element is no small task. But when the work pays of, ...

Four new chemical elements now have official names and symbols, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced this week. After a five-month review, IUPAC chemists have ...