{"id":900,"date":"2016-01-05T01:19:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/attention-nerds-the-periodic-table-is-getting-four-new-elements\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:19:38","slug":"attention-nerds-the-periodic-table-is-getting-four-new-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/attention-nerds-the-periodic-table-is-getting-four-new-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention nerds: The periodic table is getting four new elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Periodictable\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzA0LzQyL3BlcmlvZGljdGFiLjBmZGM4LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/5b791a77\/b8c\/periodictable.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Attention+nerds%3A+The+periodic+table+is+getting+four+new+elements&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fnew-elements-periodic-table%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F04%2Fnew-elements-periodic-table%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The periodic table of elements just got four new members, thereby completing its seventh and currently last row.<\/p>\n<p>The four new elements \u2014 with the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 \u2014 were announced on Dec. 30 by scientists after the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) verified the discoveries. 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The four new elements \u2014 with the atomic numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 \u2014 were announced on Dec. 30 by scientists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/attention-nerds-the-periodic-table-is-getting-four-new-elements\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400,399,1,111,70,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-elements","category-other","category-science","category-us","category-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}