The new names were announced Wednesday (June 8) by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the organization that standardizes chemical element names. The endings of each of ...

It’s now time to say hello, officially, to the four new additions to the Periodic Table of Elements. This week, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) approved the names ...

IUPAC officially added the elements to the periodic table at the end of 2015. Those credited with discovering the elements get the rights to propose permanent names and symbols.

Names have been recommended for four elements which have been added to the periodic table, and people have the chance to comment on the suggestions.

Four elements officially recognized in December, highlighted in yellow, now have names that honor Japan, Moscow, Tennessee and physicist Yuri Oganessian.

The Periodic Table, first created by Dmitri Mendeleev, organizes all of the known elements in an informative array.

It's that bunch who have finally rubber-stamped the names of elements Darmstadtium (110), Roentgenium (111) and Copernicum (112) on the Periodic table.

But a new element gets its own box on the periodic table—the most iconic real estate in science, and something that will hang in every science classroom in the world. Forever.

It's one of the most hallowed clubs in all of science--the lucky few who have discovered and named an element on the periodic table. After stabilizing and observing the latest addition to ...

The 114th and 116th elements of the periodic table are now more than numbers, as the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has officially approved names for both.