Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to integrate and analyze multiple types of data formats, such as text, images, ...

We’ve reached the limit of a very successful way to make new elements in the lab. In new research, scientists unveil a new take on that technology and report its success. The heaviest elements could ...

The modern periodic table, arranged in rows and columns, was first introduced by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. At the time, it included the known elements and their properties, but Mendeleev predicted ...

CORRECTION: On Jan. 7, 2016, this story was changed to correct the atomic number for livermorium and to clarify that IUPAC was the group that gave temporary names to the new elements. With the ...

Different elements exist on Earth, each with distinct physical and chemical properties based on their atomic structure. To systematically categorize elements with similar characteristics, scientists ...

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A team of researchers from Lund University is conducting an experiment at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that may lead to the creation of the world’s heaviest element with atomic number 120 ...

Scientists have found an alternative way to produce atoms of the superheavy element livermorium. The new method opens up the possibility of creating another element that could be the heaviest in the ...

Navigating to an island Jacklyn Gates adjusts the Berkeley Gas-filled Separator, which was used to identify atoms of element 116, livermorium. (Courtesy: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab) Physicists have ...