Reach for your Magic Marker: The periodic table has lost an element.
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley (Calif.) National Laboratory have retracted their claim from 2 years ago that they had created the heaviest member of the periodic table so far–element 118. The retraction dims hopes that scientists will soon find a cache of superheavy elements that would make uranium seem like a lightweight.
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