Element 114 sits in an island of stability, a position in the periodic table where a spherical nuclear configuration suggests that half lives should be relatively long. That word 'relatively' is ...

But Oganessian had landed when he first made element 114, after dreaming about it for decades. Last spring it was formally admitted to the periodic table and given a name: flerovium. (Element 116 ...

Sodium, like most elements in the periodic table could be said to have a dual personality ... or two of a superheavy element as an exercise in ticking the box. But element 114 has provided more than ...