ISLAND OF HEAVYWEIGHTS

THE HEAVIEST ELEMENT THAT HUMANS HAVE EVER FOUND IS CALLED OGANESSON. EACH ATOM OF THE stuff packs a whopping 118 protons into its dense center. In contrast, hydrogen-the most abundant element in the universe, something you can find in your body, Earth's oceans and even the atmosphere of Jupiter-has only one. Scientists announced the discovery of oganesson in 2006, when a Russian-American team used a particle accelerator in Dubna, Russia, to fire millions of trillions of calcium ions at a target of heavy atoms. After 1,080 hours of collisions, the investigators had created three atoms of this new superheavy substance.