Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The team believes this method could potentially help synthesize the hypothetical ...

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

In a feat of modern-day alchemy, scientists have used a beam of vaporized titanium to create one of the heaviest elements on ...

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

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

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 ...

Speaker Lætitia H. Delmau is th recipient of the prestigious 2024 Glenn T. Seaborg Actinide Separations Award.

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Nuclear fission—when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy—may seem like a process that is fully understood.

Nuclear chemistry is concerned with the properties of and changes to atomic nuclei, as opposed to traditional chemistry, which involves properties and changes related to the electronic structure ...