{"id":267469,"date":"2024-12-25T21:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T21:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/we-could-discover-a-new-element-on-the-periodic-table-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:09:56","slug":"we-could-discover-a-new-element-on-the-periodic-table-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/we-could-discover-a-new-element-on-the-periodic-table-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"We could discover a new element on the periodic table in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"899\" alt=\"Jacklyn Gates (Staff Scientist, Heavy Element Group) at the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator, BGS, in Building 88 on Monday, July 8, 2024 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. Experts in the Nuclear Science Division use the 88-Inch Cyclotron to test a new way to make superheavy element 116, livermorium.\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/16185154\/SEI_232974523.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2460992\" data-caption=\"Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory aims to make heavier elements by firing titanium particles at a metal target\" data-credit=\"Marilyn Sargent\/Berkeley Lab\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory aims to make heavier elements by firing titanium particles at a metal target<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Marilyn Sargent\/Berkeley Lab<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The race to discover new chemical elements will heat up in 2025, resulting in the heaviest one so far and a new row added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/definition\/the-periodic-table\/\">periodic table<\/a> if successful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatience will be the biggest challenge,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/heavyelementgroup.lbl.gov\/our-group\/jacklyn-gates\">Jacklyn Gates<\/a> at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California.<\/p>\n<p>Gates and her colleagues are one of a number of teams attempting to produce element 120, also currently known as unbinilium. Attempts to forge such synthetic substances, which don\u2019t exist naturally on Earth,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435232-900-we-could-discover-a-new-element-on-the-periodic-table-in-2025\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory aims to make heavier elements by firing titanium particles at a metal target Marilyn Sargent\/Berkeley Lab The race to discover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}