Discovery of 257Sg and its K-isomer reveals new insights into superheavy element fission and quantum stability mechanisms.

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

This could open up newer possibilities in making superheavy elements in the lab and understanding nuclear stability at higher ...

A new seaborgium isotope may unlock the path to discovering even shorter-lived superheavy nuclei through K-isomer states. An ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has been getting bigger since the Big Bang. When the hydrogen and helium atoms ...

An international research team led by GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) has succeeded in the production of a new seaborgium isotope. In the ...

The Strasbourg scientists therefore invested in an induction micro-furnace project for the study of superheavy nuclei with the S 3 spectrometer at GANIL as well as for their superheavy element ...

In the sea of instability, where fission occurs on a time scale of less than 10–14 seconds, no atom and thus no element can exist. The extremely short-lived Rf-252 with a half-life of 60 ...

Like most super-heavy elements, livermorium degrades into lighter elements almost immediately. However, the team believes this process can be applied to element 120, preliminarily dubbed unbinilium.

Staff scientist Jacklyn Gates at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, on July 8. Experts used the 88-Inch Cyclotron to test a new way to make superheavy element 116 ...

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.