This release is available in German. IUPAC accepted the name proposed by the international discovering team around Sigurd Hofmann at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum. The team had suggested "Cp" as the ...

The heaviest element yet known is now officially named "Copernicium," after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicium has the atomic number 112 — this number denotes the number of protons in the ...

There’s a new heavy in town. Element 112, a “superheavy” element with an atomic mass of 278, has been officially named copernicium, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announced ...

This article was updated Friday 11/4 at 11:00 p.m. EDT. The periodic table of elements just got a bit heftier today (Nov. 4), as the names of three new elements were approved by the General Assembly ...

(Nanowerk News) On Monday July 12, 2010, the chemical element discovered at GSI was christened "copernicium". This symbolic christening celebrated the element's eternal entry into the periodic table ...