Californium does not occur naturally on Earth. Its production process is both lengthy and expensive, making it a synthetic ...

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

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have developed the technology that could finally produce the ...

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

The heaviest element scientists have produced so far is oganesson (atomic number 118), which was synthesized by shooting calcium atoms at targets of the element californium. But using this method ...

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 ...

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

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

Gopalganj (Bihar): Bihar police arrested three individuals and confiscated from them 50 grams of a suspected radioactive substance, believed to be californium, worth approximately Rs 850 crore.