Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have ...

Gates is a nuclear chemist with a wry sense of humor and a clear fondness for the equipment that she and her team have developed to synthesize superheavy elements. They create these elements by ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have ...

Researchers created atoms of the superheavy element livermorium using a new technique in the Berkeley Lab's 88-Inch Cyclotron machine. They believe the same technique could be used to make unbinilium.

The more protons and neutrons scientists squeeze together to construct a “superheavy” atomic nucleus—one with a total number of protons greater than 103—the more fragile the resulting ...

What is the heaviest element in the universe? Are there infinitely many elements? Where and how could superheavy elements be ...

Millions of asteroids are floating in space in the massive expanse between Mars and Jupiter, thousands of which are close enough to our planet to be deemed "near-Earth asteroids." While the ...

Over the past few decades, scientists in the United States, Germany and Russia have figured out how to use special tools to combine two atomic nuclei and create new, superheavy elements.

Naturally occurring superheavy elements beyond those listed in the periodic table could potentially explain why asteroid 33 Polyhymnia is so dense, new research suggests. A handful of asteroids in ...

Researchers may have found a way to create a new superheavy element, known as "element 120," which would be so hefty that it ...