Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied. An international team of researchers has successfully produced an isotope of the ...

Dr. Alexander Yakushev, spokesperson of the experiment (right) and Dominik Dietzel, PhD student from Johannes Gutenberg Mainz University, work on the detector channel used to register the short-lived ...

Experiments at GSI/FAIR reveal the shoreline of the island of stability of super-heavy elements." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250115125417.htm (accessed June 11, 2025).

A multinational team of scientists has isolated four new superheavy elements that sit at the very end of the periodic table, completing the seventh row. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share ...

New frontiers: the new cooling technique could lead to ultracold experiments across the periodic table. (Courtesy: iStock/Eyematrix) Researchers in Singapore have used a magneto-optical trap (MOT) to ...

Scientists first saw the element 117 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2010. Since then they have been waiting on confirmation of the discovery by other labs. A new paper reveals that a ...

At the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they ...