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

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 ...

But fusing a titanium beam with plutonium to create livermorium is just a test run for much bigger (or rather, heavier) ...

In his adult life he was a brilliant scientist, rising quickly in academic circles. He wrote a textbook, Chemical Principles, because he couldn’t find an adequate Russian book. Mendeleev discovered ...

Can you name everything from Ac to Zr? Test your knowledge of the periodic table and see if you can top the leaderboard ...

Advancements in nuclear physics suggest the possibility of discovering stable, superheavy elements. Researchers have found an ...

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

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...

The type of semiconductive nanocrystals known as quantum dots are both expanding the forefront of pure science and also hard ...

Scientists might be close to producing a new, incredibly heavy element called "element 120." This element would be so massive that it would need a new row on the periodic table, which is the chart ...