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

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

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

A team of Russian and American researchers has created two new artificial elements, Nos. 113 and 115, at the upper extreme of the periodic table. They have produced only four atoms of each of the ...

SuperHeavy review - SuperHeavyBy Mikael Wood Published on September 14, 2011 04:00AM EDT ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.