The heaviest element that humans have ever found is called oganesson. Each atom of the stuff packs a whopping 118 protons into its dense center. In contrast, hydrogen—the most abundant element in the ...

On a stage in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris, Yuri Oganessian holds a microphone in one hand and a small remote control in the other. Over ...

An international team of researchers has successfully produced an isotope of the superheavy element livermorium — a feat they say opens the door to discovering new elements. The experiments took place ...

The rare radioactive substance made its way from the United States to Russia on a commercial flight in June 2009. Customs officers balked at accepting the package, which was ensconced in lead ...

Dr. Alexander Yakushev, spokesperson of the experiment (right) and Dominik Dietzel, PhD student from Johannes Gutenberg Mainz University, work on the detector channel used to register the short-lived ...

Since element 99 -- einsteinium -- was discovered in 1952 from the debris of the first hydrogen bomb, scientists have performed very few experiments with it because it is so hard to create and is ...

One of history's leading 16th-century astronomers, Tycho Brahe, was also an alchemist who kept the secrets of that pursuit under wraps. Researchers previously found that Brahe regularly consumed gold ...

IT is to be feared that the former of these books (which are bound together) must be condemned if only for the astounding way in which optical images are considered. The image in a concave mirror is ...

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An experiment aboard the space station showed that bacteria were effective at extracting rare earth elements from rocks. By Kenneth Chang Microbes may be the friends of future colonists living off the ...