If you have ever discovered something such as a new theory or particle then maybe the most fun part would be giving it a name. So this is exactly what Sigurd Hofmann and his group at the Centre for ...

SURELY the time has come to abandon the practice of attaching to elements fancy names arbitrarily selected by individuals. When names concerned: nobody but a small clique in constant personal ...

Posting in SB because of the political joke nature of the thought.<br><br>In 1875 Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran discovered a new element, which he named Gallium. Gallia is the Latin name for France, ...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced last week the 'provisional recommendation' that the recently discovered Element 117 be called Tennessine. The name recognizes the roles ...

Scientists recently discovered four new elements that have been added to the periodic table of elements, completing the table's fourth row with elements 113, 115, 117 and 118. As the nomenclature ...

I know very little about science, but I have heard of the Periodic Table of elements. Recently, I saw a comic in which one person was showing another person an unexpected item on the periodic table.

This New Year brings with it new elements to the periodic table. The global organization which oversees these sorts of chemical developments announced Monday that it has confirmed the discovery of ...

It will soon be time to get the Tipp-Ex out on your copy of the periodic table. That is because the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and the International Union of Pure and ...