A team of scientists set out to probe some of the heaviest elements in the periodic table using an advanced form of laser ...

Researchers from the University of Liverpool are part of an international collaboration that has made significant advances in ...

University of Liverpool researchers are part of an international research collaboration that has shed light on what happens ...

A global research collaboration, including scientists from the University of Liverpool, has provided new insights into superheavy elements by exami ...

The Radiation Detected Resonance Ionisation Spectroscopy setup, located downstream of the UNILAC accelerator, rotating target wheel and ...

In a study published in the journal Nature, the research team provide insight into the structure of atomic nuclei of fermium (element 100) and nobelium (element 102) with different numbers of neutrons ...

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The ...

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Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

Look along the bottom row of a standard periodic table and, at number 108, you’ll find meitnerium. A highly radioactive element that doesn’t exist in nature, the half-life of its most stable ...

Scientists at Berkeley Lab are using a new technique to create increasingly heavier elements, with the goal of reaching ...

Hub cap-sized hermit crabs eating coconuts containing caesium. A dome ‘coffin’ crammed with radioactive material in plastic bags. The Marshall Islands, a ring of coral reefs in the middle of ...