U.S., Russian scientists discover new element
`American and Russian scientists announced on Monday that they had discovered a superheavy element, known as 118, albeit one that has only existed in three different atoms lasting a fraction of a second over months of experiments. [..]
In the latest experiments, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, bombarded californium with calcium ions to create 118 — the heaviest ever created in such experiments. [..]
In the end the atoms of element 118 — also known as ununoctium — lasted 0.9 milliseconds, researchers said.’
