Element 118 has been named oganesson in honour of nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian. (newscientist.com)
But the sheer number of oganesson's protons — 118 — may help the particles overcome this force, creating a bubble with few protons at the nucleus's center, researchers say. (sciencenews.org)
NAME GAME First created in a lab in 2002, element 118 was officially dubbed oganesson in 2016. (sciencenews.org)