Plutonium's in a part of the periodic table called the actinide series alongside its neighbours thorium and protoactinium. Seaborg christened the actinides, rearranging the periodic table in the ...

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The ...

Currently, there are 118 known elements on the periodic table, from hydrogen all the way to oganesson, which was officially ...

There are currently 118 known elements listed on the periodic table; from hydrogen ... by bombarding plutonium-244, an ...

The real neptunium sits between uranium and plutonium in the actinides, the floating bar on the periodic table that pops out from between radium and lawrencium. A silvery, metallic substance like so ...

So what's the big deal if a couple atoms of livermorium recently popped into existence at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – those keeping track of the periodic table might ask? Livermorium ...