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 ...

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.

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.