Thanks to the work of chemists at Lund University in Sweden, a brand new element has taken a seat at the periodic table: Element 115, or ununpentium as it is currently known. Ununpentium (which is ...

Roberto said ORNL is credited also with the discovery of element 115, later named moscovium, because it is a decay product of element 117, later named tennessine on Dec. 30, 2015, by a joint committee ...

The three elements are promethium (element 61), moscovium (element 115) and tennessine (element 117), which is named after Tennessee. Moscovium is named after Moscow – that will be explained in the ...

The team created 30 atoms of element 115 by firing a beam of calcium atoms at a piece of americium foil. The radioactive ununpentium (a temporary name meaning “one-one-five”) existed for only a ...