Kosuke Morita (L), who led the team at Riken institute that discovered the superheavy synthetic element, and Hiroshi Hase (R), Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, pose with a board displaying the new element 113 during at a press conference at Riken's research center in Wako, Saitama prefecture on June 9, 2016. Researchers in Japan have proudly proposed "nihonium" as the name for the first element on the periodic table to be discovered by local scientists. / AFP PHOTO / JIJI PRESS / JIJI PRESS / Japan OUTJIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images
