RUSSIA: US and Russian researchers say they have created element 118, the heaviest known element.
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When they looked back at the original data files for element 118, they noticed something sickening: there was no data.
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Except... when the Russians and Germans tried to confirm the results by rerunning the experiments, they couldn't find element 118, just krypton and lead.
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Best of all, element 118 decayed immediately, spitting out an alpha particle and becoming element 116, which had never been seen either.
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No proof of element 118 existed until a late round of data analysis, when "hits" suddenly materialized from chaotic 1s and 0s.