This release is available in German. IUPAC accepted the name proposed by the international discovering team around Sigurd Hofmann at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum. The team had suggested "Cp" as the ...

This article was updated Friday 11/4 6:00pm. The periodic table of elements just got a bit heftier today (Nov. 4), as the names of three new elements were approved by the General Assembly of the ...

LOS ANGELES - There's a new element officially in town and its name is copernicium, after the 16th-century Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus. It is element 112 and its symbol is Cn. Copernicium, a ...

Element 112 did not invite a lot of interest when theoretical nuclear physicists predicted the famous island of stable superheavy elements — elements that have a number of nucleons that leads to ...

This release is available in German. In honor of scientist and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the discovering team around Professor Sigurd Hofmann suggested the name „copernicium" with ...

Island hopper The TASCA facility at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research. (Courtesy: G Otto/GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung) A new isotope of darmstadtium and a new excited ...

The periodic table officially has a new entry. The International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry announced its approval last week of the name copernicium and symbol Cn for element 112 (Pure Appl.

There's a new element officially on the periodic table, and its name is copernicium, after the 16th-century Polish scientist Nicholas Copernicus. It is element 112 and its symbol is Cn. Copernicium, a ...