Today's headlines
10/16/2006: Superheavy element 118 discovered
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory working with researchers from Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia have discovered the superheavy element 118.
11/08/2004: Element 111 named roentgenium
The Inorganic Chemistry Division Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, IUPAC, approved the name roentgenium for element 111.
8/23/2004: Zinc Atoms Link Up
The first stable molecule with a zinc-zinc bond has been serendipituously synthesized.
5/31/2004: Name Proposed for Element 111
The Inorganic Chemistry Division Committee of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, IUPAC, recommended the name roentgenium, Rg, for element 111, naming it after Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen who discovered x-rays.
2/09/2004: Two new elements created.
An international research team in Russia has synthesized elements 113 and 115.
8/18/2003 Element 110 named.
Transfermium element 110 will now be known as darmstadtium (Ds).