An international research team lead by GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) has succeeded in the production of a new seaborgium isotope. In the ...

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This news release is available in German. An international collaboration led by research groups from Mainz and Darmstadt, Germany, has achieved the synthesis of a new class of chemical compounds for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In September 1964, Albert Ghiorso’s team in Berkeley claimed to have produced the element through ...

A chemical bond between a superheavy element and a carbon atom has been established for the first time. This research opens new vistas for studying the effects of Einstein's relativity on the ...

The periodic table of elements devised by Mendeleev well over a hundred years ago has become a prime tool for chemists, as well as a widely recognized symbol of chemistry — such that it is easy to ...

After a brief hiatus, chemists are continuing their forced march up the periodic table. The latest addition is seaborgium: element 106. Nearly all the elements from hydrogen to uranium occur naturally ...

An international research team led by GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) has succeeded in the production of a new seaborgium isotope. In the ...