Although superheavy elements up to number 118 have been produced artificially, their atomic nuclei rapidly decay. A subtle quantum effect means that even heavier atomic nuclei above element 120 could ...

In an unprecedentedly precise accelerator experiment, researchers directly observed how some of the heaviest known elements ...

The number 118 element, "Oganesson," was named after Yuri Oganessian, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences who is also a leading scientist in researching superheavy chemical elements.

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The ...

New isotope "lawrencium-266" also detected“Ununseptium” or the superheavy element Z = 117 could finally be ready to be added to the periodic table. An international collaboration has produced four ...

Chemists searching for the island of stability now have a better map. Thanks to the discovery of six new variations of the superheavy elements on the bottom rung of the periodic table, scientists ...

By firing calcium isotopes into a plutonium target inside a particle accelerator, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have finally confirmed the Russian discovery of the superheavy ...

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