A group of researchers working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have confirmed the existence of the superheavy element 114, furthering research in the field of nuclear science. The team, ...

Scientists at Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory last week confirmed that they were able to produce element 114, but the super-heavy sample quickly decayed, dashing hopes that it would be stable.

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have confirmed the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group at the Joint Institute for ...

It wasn't easy. It took more than a week of running the experiment to generate a measly two atoms of the stuff, which they reported in Physical Review Letters last week. It's basic science at the ...

Berkeley, CA – Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in ...

On October 10, 2006, Ken Moody answered selected viewer questions about the ongoing quest to forge new chemical elements and the search for a so-called Island of Stability. Please note we are no ...

The super-heavy elements 114 and 116 have officially been recognized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the official arbiter of chemical names, and have been named in honor of ...