Just last year, they added elements 113, 115, 117, and 118: nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og). This leads us to ask an important question: Is there a maximum ...

Physics writer Emily Conover joined Science News in 2016. She has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago, where she studied the weird ways of neutrinos, tiny elementary particles that ...