Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The team believes this method could potentially help synthesize the hypothetical ...

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Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? Researchers report on experiments to come closer to an answer. They gained insight ...

University of Liverpool researchers are part of an international research collaboration that has shed light on what happens ...

Scientists have found a way to create superheavy elements, leading to groundbreaking possibilities in chemistry.

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz, succeeded in determining the chemical properties of the ...

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

In recent decades, researchers have pushed the boundaries of the periodic table, synthesizing the heaviest elements known to ...

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz ...

Marie Curie had an extraordinary life, but as Glenda Cooper finds out in this new biography by Dava Sobel, Curie also led the ...

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have developed the technology that could finally produce the fabled element 120, which would require the addition of a new row to the ...

Superheavy elements are those elements with a large number of protons in their ... lived systems will help push to the limit of the periodic table of elements and revise the concept of the island ...