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Chemistry World
October 17, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
Heaviest Element Awaits Confirmation A team of Russian and American scientists has claimed the discovery of element 118, the newest and heaviest addition to the periodic table.   |
Chemistry World
September 30, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Element 114 confirmed US scientists have confirmed the discovery of element number 114, first made over a decade ago by a team in Russia. |
Chemistry World
May 6, 2014
Simon Hadlington |
Element 117 poised to enter superheavyweight division Element 117 or ununseptium has taken a step closer towards being given a place on the periodic table after an international team of researchers confirmed its production and made a more detailed analysis of its decay profile. |
Chemistry World
February 10, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Inching towards the island of stability An international team of researchers has for the first time directly measured the mass of an element heavier than uranium. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2016
Emma Stoye |
Confirmation of four new elements completes seventh row of periodic table Now that the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has confirmed the discovery of the four new elements that complete the periodic table's seventh row, the institution will choose their names and element symbols |
Chemistry World
August 30, 2013
Andy Extance |
Decays and x-rays build case for element 115 A Swedish-led team has become the second to spot element 115, which has a half-life of just 160 milliseconds, and potentially the first to capture its x-ray 'fingerprints'. |
Chemistry World
May 30, 2012
Phillip Broadwith |
Flerovium and Livermorium take seats at the periodic table The elements will take names that recognize the joint efforts of scientists in the US and Russia to provide unequivocal evidence of their synthesis. |
Chemistry World
May 2, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
Chemists Arrive at the Island of Stability Despite predictions of exotic properties, 'superheavy' element 112 behaves like one of the family, say radiochemists in Switzerland. |
Chemistry World
January 5, 2016
Philip Ball |
The periodic table name game The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry works to standardize the names of new elements around the world. Now, following its confirmation of the discovery of four new elements it's time to choose new names that will forever remain a part of the periodic table. |
Chemistry World
August 10, 2012
Nina Notman |
Tweaked weighing scales help map the island of stability The mass of the heavy element lawrencium has been measured directly for the first time by German scientists. |
Chemistry World
May 2, 2008
Richard Van Noorden |
Heaviest element claim criticised Scientists claiming to have discovered the super-heavy element 122 have had their research dismissed by physicists who say their measurements are suspect. |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Miyoko Ohtake |
Chemist Spins His Cyclotron to Create Impossibly Heavy Metals New research allows mutations of metal elements to include more atoms. |
Popular Mechanics
December 29, 2008
Jeremy Jacquot |
3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology. |
Science News
August 31, 2002 |
TimeLine: August 27, 1932 Russians dedicate world's largest power plant... New theory explains radioactive disintegration... New isotopes predicted with neutrons as "bricks" |
Chemistry World
December 20, 2010
Hayley Birch |
Atomic weights change to reflect natural variations The atomic weights for ten elements are to be expressed as intervals rather than single values, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has announced. |
Chemistry World
October 24, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
Drip Line Slips Away Researchers have squeezed 29 neutrons into an atom of aluminum, bringing into doubt current theories which predicted that it would be too unstable to exist. |
World War II
Robert LaRue |
Berkeley Summer: Building the Bomb A gathering of many of the world's greatest scientists in 1942, hosted by J. Robert Oppenheimer, laid the foundation for the development of the atomic bomb. |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Lawrencium experiment could shake up periodic table Lawrencium's position on the periodic table may now be up for debate after scientists in Japan successfully measured the first ionisation potential of the synthetic f-block element. |
Science News
October 23, 2004 |
From the October 20, 1934, Issue Revolutionary Treasure to be Sought in New York... Enormous Canyon Discovered in Unexplored Mexico... Physics May Soon Discover New Group of Elements... |
Chemistry World
November 28, 2013
Daniel Johnson |
A tale of seven elements If you'd like to know about the stories and scientists of chemistry's greatest search, and see some acerbic correspondence along the way, then this book by Eric Scerri is for you. |
Chemistry World
November 21, 2013
Mark Peplow |
A century of isotopes Glasgow will celebrate 'isotope day' on 4 December, 100 years after Frederick Soddy coined the word 'isotope' in Nature. |
Chemistry World
November 22, 2013
Lars Ohrstrom |
30-second elements Periodic table aficionados and hardcore inorganic chemists will find amazing new facts, while the layman is offered captivating, albeit rhapsodic, insights into the world of chemistry and its applications in this book edited by Eric Scerri. |
Chemistry World
March 23, 2014
Anthony King |
Californium compound springs bonding surprise Californium is the last member of the actinide series with an isotope long-lived enough to be studied in a standard radiological facility. |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2015
Simon Hadlington |
Superatom mimics for rare earth elements Researchers in the US believe they may be able to create mimics of rare earth elements by making new 'superatoms' composed of atomic clusters of other metals. |
Chemistry World
March 28, 2007
Michael Gross |
The Actinides, Not so Unpredictable After All Researchers have developed a theory suggesting that quantum mechanical superposition between different states may be to blame for the unpredictability of the elements in the middle of the actinides series. |
Scientific American
December 18, 2006
Graham P. Collins |
Kim's Big Fizzle The Physics Behind A Nuclear Dud: The North Koreans produced some kind of a nuclear damp squib. What could have gone wrong depends on the nuclear fuel used. |
Chemistry World
November 12, 2012
Emma Shiells |
Visual elements In "Wonderful Life with the Elements," Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji has created a light-hearted, humorous book that's both engaging and educational at the same time. |
Science News
Janet Raloff |
Of Presidents And Nobels If Barack Obama confirms that Steven Chu is to become the new Energy Secretary (something that is expected, next week), the Lawrence Berkeley lab chief will become the first individual to assume a Cabinet position while already in possession of a Nobel Prize. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
William Sweet |
Could Fusion Clean Up Nuclear Waste? Physicists propose a marriage of fusion and fission reactors that could save both technologies |
Science News
October 19, 2002 |
TimeLine: October 15, 1932 The saber-tooth strikes... Dangers of dust in industry described at safety congress... Scientist directs huge magnet in attack to smash atom... |
Science News
June 26, 2004 |
From the June 23, 1934, issue Young Desert Hawks Secure in Natural Fort... New Element is "Relative" of Brittle Metal Manganese... Squeezing Turns Phosphorus From White to Black... |
Chemistry World
March 2, 2010
Anna Lewcock |
New high tech nuclear lab for EU A new state-of-the-art facility in Germany will significantly boost Europe's ability to identify and characterise minute traces of nuclear material as part of ongoing safeguarding and non-proliferation activities. |
Chemistry World
June 20, 2012
Laura Howes |
94 Elements film project A new film project has been launched exploring how the chemical elements -- from hydrogen to plutonium -- affect our lives. |
Chemistry World
January 6, 2016
Jon Cartwright |
Graphene sieves deuterium from hydrogen Materials composed of a single layer of atoms, such as graphene, can separate hydrogen and deuterium more effectively than almost any other process. |
Chemistry World
January 10, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Atomic Inspection for Nuclear Waste Storage Scientists have announced a new way to assess the safety of storing nuclear waste. Already, the method has shown that the ceramic mineral zircon, a candidate for storing nuclear waste for over 250,000 years, would lose its ordered structure in a far shorter time. |
Science News
November 25, 2000 |
Artistic Elements Providing an unusual perspective on the chemical elements, the Chemistry Societies' Network presents a stunning visual tour of the elements (109 in all) as seen through the eyes of artists... |
Chemistry World
September 15, 2015
Emma Stoye |
Ytterbium has new atomic weight The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac) has revised the standard atomic weight of ytterbium from 173.054 to 173.045. |
Chemistry World
January 14, 2011
Rebecca Brodie |
Nuclear forensics A portable forensic device to detect nuclear isotopes intended for use in weapons has been made by scientists from Canada. |
National Defense
December 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Advancing Hidden Nuclear Material Detection On any given day, ships and trucks deliver cargo containers filled with tons of imported goods. Homeland security officials have long warned that terrorists may use them to smuggle nuclear materials into the United States. |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2013
Laura Howes |
Elemental weigh in The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has released another revision to standard atomic weights. In total, 19 elements have been found to have gained or lost a little weight. |
Chemistry World
March 26, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Neutron -- proton mass imbalance put on the quantum scales Scientists in Germany have calculated this value to a high level of precision and may also be able to explain why it even exists in the first place. |
Chemistry World
January 16, 2008
Michael Gross |
Chemists Tame the Uranyl Ion UK chemists have devised a 'trap' in which to catch and modify the predominant form of uranium. |
Wired
March 24, 2008 |
Three Smart Things You Should Know About Helium Some unknown facts about this second periodic element. |
Science News
June 19, 2004 |
From the June 16, 1934, issue Growths of Fancy... Italian Discovery May be First of Super-Elements... Harvard Exhibits New-Found Triple-Horned Dinosaur... |
Industrial Physicist
Dec 2003/Jan 2004
Chichester & Simpson |
Compact accelerator neutron generators These small devices are useful for detecting and quantifying different elements in a variety of materials and find applications in identifying explosives, chemical weapons, and nuclear materials. |
Science News
January 22, 2005 |
From the January 19, 1935, Issue Girl Twins Repeat Famous Experiment of Jimmy-Johnny... Electric Currents Picked up From Head Show Brain Action... Triple-Weight Hydrogen Made From Lithium Atoms... |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2005
Erico Guizzo |
The Atomic Fortress That Time Forgot The world's first plutonium-making reactor is an Atomic Age landmark--and it faces an uncertain future. The U.S. Department of Energy has been laboring for years to clean up the radioactive and chemical contamination there. |
Chemistry World
October 4, 2013
William Bergius |
Isotope signature identifies yellowcake origin A new way to determine the source of nuclear materials has been developed by nuclear forensic scientists in Germany and South Korea. |
Chemistry World
March 17, 2015
Bill Griffith |
The lost elements: the periodic table's shadow side This book deals with spurious elements -- those that have been claimed over the last 300 years but that do not exist or contain species already known. |
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TimeLine: October 18, 1930 Archaeologists Find Patient Peruvian Surgeons Lost... New Method Shows Scientists Growth of Living Tissue... Atomic Projectiles Sought to Release Energy of Atom... |
