The elements complete the seventh row of the Periodic Table. The discoverers, who come from Japan, the United States and Russia, were given the right to propose the names and symbols.

Until now, these elements had temporary names and symbols on the periodic table as their existence was hard to prove.

The new superheavy, radioactive elements were added to the periodic table last year but given temporary and unremarkable names: ununtrium, ununpentium, ununseptium and ununoctoium.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the century-old organisation charged with maintaining the periodic table, finally announced it had approved the names of four new elements.

Scientists with the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) have officially approved the names of four new elements, completing the seventh row of the periodic table. The four ...

The periodic table's latest additions finally have names of their own. Chemists officially accepted the four elements to the iconic table at the beginning of the year, but had given them place ...

New periodic table elements get names Names have been recommended for four elements which have been added to the periodic table, and people have the chance to comment on the suggestions.

The elements were recognized by an international committee of chemists and physicists. They’re called elements 114 and 116 for now – permanent names and symbols will be chosen later.