Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is setting its sights on creating element 120 as part of a new US effort to discover the first elements in row eight of the periodic table. The move follows the breakdown of the US–Russian partnership, which had previously discovered the five heaviest elements, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I mean, we’ve been discovering new elements for a while now. Bobby Brocolli has a great video series on the hunt for the elements.
Oh for sure! I’m a bit of a scientist myself, and get how it works, but an entire new row of elements would be quite the achievement!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_periodic_table