The Periodic Table Expands Once Again - NYTimes.com - Aurora. The elements were recognized by an international committee of chemists and physicists.
For now, they are called Elements 114 and 116 — permanent names and symbols will be chosen later. People are not likely to run into either of them. Scientists make them in labs by smashing atoms of other elements together to create the new ones. “Our experiments last for many weeks, and typically, we make an atom every week or so,” said Ken Moody, a chemist with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who was part of the discovery team. The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham. The Periodic Table of Videos. “I know nothing about hassium.
Shall we make something up?” A somewhat unusual opening, but what else can one say when trying to film separate videos about each element in the periodic table? Our project was devised by Brady Haran, a BBC-trained video journalist, who had spent a year filming University of Nottingham scientists at work (1). Inspired by his time working with chemistry researchers, he suggested making a periodic table of videos (PTOV, www.periodicvideos.com), and within days, filming had begun.