Researchers may have found a way to create a new superheavy element, known as "element 120," which would be so hefty that it ...

To make elements 119 or 120, the researchers explain, they’d need einsteinium (99) or fermium (100). “Unfortunately, neither of these elements can be produced in sufficient quantities to ...

Find out scientists are using particle accelerators to create element 120 and why they’ve skipped over element 119. Plus, if an element exists for only a fraction of a second in the lab, can we still ...

The results, to be detailed in a paper on arXiv and submitted to Physical Review Letters, represent a key discovery in the pursuit of element 120. Gates described the creation of a new element as ...