See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114.

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A month ...

For decades nuclear scientists have searched for an Island of Stability among notoriously short-lived artificial elements. Now researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division and UC Berkeley ...

At the far end of the periodic table is a realm where nothing is quite as it should be. The elements here, starting at atomic number 104 (rutherfordium), have never been found in nature. In fact, they ...

Chemists searching for the island of stability now have a better map. Thanks to the discovery of six new variations of the superheavy elements on the bottom rung of the periodic table, scientists are ...

The mere existence of superheavy elements has been a longstanding fundamental scientific problem. How can a nucleus with a large atomic number, such as Z = 112, survive the huge electrostatic ...

Scientists have created six new isotopes of the superheavy elements, reaching in an unbroken chain of decays from element 114 down to rutherfordium. The discovery is a major step toward understanding ...