Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have discovered a new way to create superheavy elements.

It took weeks to observe the behavior of one and a half dozen precious, but very short-lived, atoms of these exotic elements.

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Silicon Valley A-listers are funding Pacific Fusion, a startup that founding CEO Eric Lander says will have a full-scale demonstration system within a decade.

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As people live longer than ever before, the incidence of aging-related, chronic diseases is on the rise, severely impacting ...

Work by LLNL scientists to discover a medical countermeasure ... For their future work, the team hopes to increase the half-life of subedatex, so that it could be used prophylactically or as ...