Japanese scientists create heaviest ever element

Japanese scientists create heaviest ever element

TOKYO, Japan - Kosuke Morita, a researcher at Riken, an independent administrative corporation formerly known as the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, briefs reporters on the heaviest-ever new element, created by his team in Tokyo on Sept. 28. Riken President Ryoji Noyori, a 2001 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, sits at left.

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