Fun Fact: Lawrence Berkeley Lab had hoped to recapture its primacy in the synthesis of new elements with element 118 and its decay product, 116, but had to retract its claim in 2002 when its own researchers said they had found evidence that Victor Ninov, a member of the team, had fabricated data. In 2006 researchers in Dubna, said they had produced elements 118 and 116�this time for real.