Four new elements find a place on periodic table
by Ian Sample Science editor from on (#ZKFX)
'To scientists, this is of greater value than an Olympic gold medal,' says Nobel laureate in chemistry
Such is the lot of the modern-day chemist: you wait ages for a new element to turn up and then four come along at once.
Discovered by researchers in Japan, Russia and the US, the four new elements are the first to be added to the periodic table since 2011, when elements 114 and 116 were included.
