The Birth of a New Element

[jolinar of malkshor]

Three atoms of a substance never before seen on Earth are created — and die in less than a millisecond
So it was with great fanfare Monday that experts at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in California, announced they, along with colleagues at Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, in Dubna, have produced an atom with 118 protons. Three atoms, actually. And all it took was smashing "bullets" of calcium at a target of Californium about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 times

http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...546747,00.html

FYI..now they have to expand the periodic table.