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

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have developed the technology that could finally produce the fabled element 120, which would require the addition of a new row to the ...

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Scientists have found a way to create superheavy elements, leading to groundbreaking possibilities in chemistry.

But fusing a titanium beam with plutonium to create livermorium is just a test run for much bigger (or rather, heavier) ...

A simulation by US theoretical physicists has provided the first fully microscopic characterization of the moment an atom ...

The title of her talk at noon to Friends of ORNL at the UT Resource Center, 1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike, is “Actinide Separations ...

Nuclear fission has powered our world and medical advancements for decades. What exactly happens when an atom's nucleus splits into two parts?

The material, which police said was the element Californium, was found when a car was searched in the Pursaklar suburb of the city, NTV news channel reported (in Turkish). Four people in the car ...

Researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle, or UW, and Los Alamos National Laboratory used the Summit ...

Similarly, on 9 August, three smugglers were arrested in Bihar’s Gopalganj district with 50 grams of Californium— a rare and highly radioactive substance with a black-market value of nearly ...