WASHINGTON – Revisiting one of physics' most embarrassing cases of scientific misconduct, researchers from Russia and the United States announced Monday that they have created a new super-heavy ...

A U.S. and Russian team said Monday that it had created element 118, the heaviest known to date. It is the fifth ultra-heavy element produced by the team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and ...

American and Russian scientists have confirmed the discovery of the newest superheavy element -- element 118. "The decay properties of all the isotopes that we have made so far paint the picture of a ...

Ununoctium, as the new element is temporarily named, has no known use but inspired almost a decade-long pursuit by scientists on four continents. Controversy in the course of its discovery hobbled the ...

LIVERMORE — By firing atoms of metal at another metal, Russian and American scientists created an element — No. 118 on the periodic table — that is the heaviest substance known, the scientists ...