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# Can We Create New Elements Beyond the Periodic Table
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/pbs-space-time/episode/can-we-create-new-elements-beyond-the-periodic-table-h71vnv/
- Published: 2024-08-26T14:45:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-21T13:47:05.000Z
- Description: Have we reached the end of the line of discoverable elements?
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: PBS Space Time, Season 10, Episode 18, #ZZZ_Episode_91290664-300a-438e-af91-9b9ae0e8ca7b, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_ae70f836-13b6-4c9d-b61f-99f7b8bc29eb, #v1.16

Scientists have been slowly extending the periodic table one element at a time, pushing to higher and higher masses, and have discovered some incredibly useful materials along the way. But the elements at the current end of the table are so unstable that they decay almost as soon as they’re created in our particle accelerators. Astronomers have found a cosmic phenomenon that may populate table.