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Kosuke Morita, Professor in Physics at Kyushu University attends a press conference about the discovery of chemical element 113 at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on February 5, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan. In December 2015 the existence of 4 new elements was officially recognised, and the discovery of element 113 was accredited to the RIKEN Nishina Center of Accelerator-Based Science in Wako City, Saitama Prefecture. Professor Morita leads the team that discovered element 113, the first ever discovered in Asia. The name and the chemical symbol for the new element is yet to be confirmed, but it has provisionally been called Ununtrium. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin/AFLO)
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