Since the turn of the century, six new chemical elements have been discovered and subsequently added to the periodic table of elements, the very icon of chemistry. These new elements have high atomic ...

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The borders of the periodic table of the elements and of the chart of nuclides are not set in stone. The desire to explore the properties of atoms and their nuclei in a regime of very large numbers of ...

Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. Standard atomic weights, those numbers emblazoned under the elements on the periodic table, were once thought of as unchanging constants of ...

Physicists have synthesized the element livermorium, which has the atomic number 116, using an unprecedented approach 1 that promises to open the way to new, record-breaking elements. The heaviest ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based directly on the interactions between their protons and neutrons. Published in ...

For new, human-made heavy elements on the periodic table, being “too ‘big’ for your own good” often means instability and a fleeting existence. The more protons and neutrons scientists squeeze ...

The periodic table has 118 elements. Most of them are named after places, minerals, or mythological figures. But a small ...

Scientists from Massey University in New Zealand, the University of Mainz in Germany, Sorbonne University in France, and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) discuss the limit of the periodic ...