So if you tried to make new elements by smooshing calcium-48 onto these really big, unstable elements, the transuranic element would decay into something with a lower atomic number incredibly quickly, ...

The newest, heaviest element has been confirmed under laboratory conditions, and its synthesis could help produce even heavier cousins with all-new useful properties. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

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 ...

Japanese scientists have made a new (nu?) periodic table organized by the number of protons in the nucleus instead of the element’s number of electrons. They call it the Nucletouch table, and where ...

While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after ...