Researchers have demonstrated a new way to make superheavy elements, offering a method to create element 120 — which would be the heaviest element ever made. Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley ...

Elements is a faculty reporting tool. In May 2022, the Office of the Provost announced that Elements was selected as the new faculty reporting tool. Elements will reduce manual data entry and allow ...

A new element is set to occupy spot 112 on the periodic table. ((iStock)) Scientists are about to add a new, super-heavy element to the periodic table. "The new element is approximately 277 times ...

How heavy can an element be? An international team of researchers has found that ancient stars were capable of producing elements with atomic masses greater than 260, heavier than any element on the ...

The rare radioactive substance made its way from the United States to Russia on a commercial flight in June 2009. Customs officers balked at accepting the package, which was ensconced in lead ...

"We just last month finished altering our tables," says Lisabeth Hoffman. "And now. . . " And now? Scientists, rejoice. Hoffman is a chemist who works for Sargent-Welch, a 150-year-old company that ...

Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...

Could super-heavy elements be lurking in plain sight? One group of physicists says that they are, and claims to have seen the heaviest element yet found hiding amongst thorium atoms. Some theories ...

Chemistry textbooks as we know it are officially out of date, as four new elements will soon be added to the periodic table. Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 have formally been recognized by the ...