Can scientists make a new element for the periodic table?

surprisestock/Shutterstock There are currently 118 chemical elements on the periodic table. The last one added was oganesson, which was first created by scientists in 2002. Seven-year-old Robyn, from Edinburgh in Scotland, wants to know whether scientists will be able to make any more new elements, and how they do it. He joined our host Eloise to ask biochemist Mark Lorch on The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast. In each episode of The Conversation’s Curious Kids, a child joins host…