I n recent decades, researchers have pushed the boundaries of the periodic table, synthesizing the heaviest elements known to science. These superheavy elements (SHE) complete the seventh row of ...

The third-heaviest element in the universe has been made in a way that offers a route for synthesising the elusive element 120, which would be the heaviest element in the periodic table.

Researchers discovered rutherfordium-252, the shortest-lived superheavy nucleus, refining the "island of stability" map and ...

Physicists are nearing the creation of the heaviest element known to humankind, following a scientific breakthrough at an American university. The experiment utilized the lab's heavy-ion ...

A pathway that should allow the production of new nuclei beyond oganesson-294 (Z=118), the heaviest nucleus ever studied by nuclear physicists. The next step is to synthesize element 120. Although ...

A team of researchers has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the super-heavy nuclides more precisely by measuring the super-heavy rutherfordium-252 nucleus, ...