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

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

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.

The periodic table is one of the triumphs of science. Even before certain elements had been discovered, this chart could ...

Superheavy science: Lab's actinide abilities enable the discovery of new elements It's elemental—scientists agree that the periodic table is incomplete.

Superheavy nuclei: Atomic nuclei with an extremely high number of protons, typically beyond uranium, where complex nuclear forces and quantum shell effects confer unexpected stability.

New, superheavy element to enter periodic table By Reuters June 11, 20096:37 AM PDTUpdated June 11, 2009 ...

The superheavy element 117, which is made of atoms containing 117 protons, is roughly 40% heavier than lead. Data collected seem to support what theorists have long suspected: that as newly ...

Tim Dean quotes David Hinde of the Australian National University at Canberra, who believes that superheavy elements may not form in supernovae because of the very short spontaneous-fission half ...

New superheavy element isotopes: 242Pu (48Ca,5n)285114. Physical Review Letters, 2010; 105 (18) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.182701 ...

He’s even claimed to have found the superheavy element 122 in a sample of thorium, a story we looked at a couple of years ago. Today, Marinov is back with a similar claim.