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

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 ...

Chapman's other book, Superheavy, delves into the periodic table. While that might not sound super interesting or very ...

An international team of researchers has successfully produced an isotope of the superheavy element livermorium — a feat they say opens the door to discovering new elements. The experiments took ...

This raises the following questions: How many more of these superheavy species are waiting to be discovered? Where—if at all—is a fundamental limit in the creation of these elements?

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 ...

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 ...

This well-known Armenian Russian researcher of superheavy chemical elements had pioneered a technique that enabled the synthesis of elements with 114 or more protons in each atomic nucleus. Oganessian ...

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.