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

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.

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 ...

The researchers have now come a step closer to mapping this island by discovering the shortest-lived superheavy nucleus known so far, which marks the position of the island's shoreline in nuclei ...

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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 ...

There could be potential uses of future superheavy elements. We have not been able to make them but if they exist in space in asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter then we will not ...

However, as the positively charged protons repel each other, nuclei with too many protons are at risk of splitting -- a challenge in the production of new, superheavy elements. Certain ...

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 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.