Scientists know far less about heavy actinides (elements beyond plutonium) than other elements in the periodic table because ...

After a breakdown in US-Russia relations, Riken finds itself ahead of its rivals. And Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory chases element 120 ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

The modern periodic table, arranged in rows and columns ... Over the past three decades, heavy ion-induced fusion reactions have led to the discovery of superheavy elements (SHEs) up to atomic number ...

The first steps of creation changed more than just the periodic table. In 1941 ... for making new superheavy elements begins with expensive ingredients: rare, heavy isotopes of calcium and ...

Russian scientists will hold the first experiments at the Super-Heavy Element Factory in Dubna near Moscow in April to synthesize the 114th and 115th elements of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table ...

For the last fifty or so years, the periodic table has been incomplete. Elements after uranium on the periodic table have been synthesized for the past few decades, but there were always a few ...

You interact with about two-thirds of the elements of the periodic table every day. Some, like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, make up our bodies and the air we breathe. Yet there is also a class of ...

This podcast is about one of these elements, number 107 in the periodic table, called bohrium ... who reported that they had produced fusion in a tabletop experiment using heavy water. The successful ...