The candle on the table was a wick burning in beef fat; once melted, servers poured the grease into a little dish for dipping bread. Blue Hill even “grew” the tables from fungus.

Nature special: The periodic table. Researchers have tried this experiment. Chemists in Germany spent several months in 2012 on it, but gave up with no sightings.

Gravity experiments on the kitchen table: why a tiny, tiny measurement may be a big leap forward for physics Published: March 3, 2024 2:19pm EST. Sam Baron, The University of Melbourne. Author ...

The new elements' existence was confirmed by further experiments that reproduced them — however briefly. Element 113, for instance, exists for less than a thousandth of a second.