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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
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
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
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. |
Popular Mechanics
June 15, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
10 Geekiest Elements Ever Created in a Lab The periodic table doesn't end at 92 -- not even close. Last week the official tally reached 112 |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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 9, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Atomic nucleii go pearshaped Researchers at the University of Liverpool, UK, have found evidence that the radioactive nuclei of some radon and radium atoms are lopsided like pears. |
Chemistry World
July 15, 2014
Philip Ball |
Molecular clocks may probe fundamental laws A new proposal for using molecules rather than atoms for ultra-precise measurement of frequencies could help to probe whether there are fundamental laws of physics beyond the ones we know already. |
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
January 8, 2014
Philip Ball |
We choose to go to the muon Chemists Mohammad Goli and Shant Shahbazian posit two new light elements. They are muonium (Mu), in which an electron orbits a positively charged muon ( +), and muonic helium (He ), in which an electron orbits a 'nucleus' consisting of an alpha particle and a negative muon. |
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... |
Chemistry World
January 10, 2013
Simon Hadlington |
Quantum timepiece ticks the right boxes In a remarkable feat of quantum horology, scientists in the US have created a clock that derives its timing mechanism from nothing more complicated than the mass of an atom. The new clock could prove to be a new way to make highly accurate measurements of atomic mass. |
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. |
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
April 14, 2007 |
Timeline: From the April 10, 1937, Issue Eggs of Brook Trout Have Beauty of Pearls... New Clue to Atom's Heart From Artificial Element... |
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. |
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
December 15, 2010
Hayley Birch |
New technique probes electron properties of individual atoms A new, low voltage electron microscopy technique allows scientists to discriminate not just between atoms of different elements but between atoms of the same element in different electronic states. |
Chemistry World
November 10, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Nanotube scales challenge mass spectrometers By precisely measuring tiny fluctuations in mass, carbon nanotubes will allow chemists to follow reactions of individual proteins atom by atom, predict Spanish researchers |
Chemistry World
February 28, 2007
Simon Hadlington |
Individual Atoms' Chemical ID Revealed Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that atomic force microscopy can be used to reveal the chemical identity of individual atoms on a surface at room temperature. |
Chemistry World
November 2010 |
Column: The Crucible Would element 137 really spell the end of the periodic table? |
Science News
April 7, 2001 |
TimeLine: April 4, 1931 Paschal flowers bloom on prairies of the west... Test devised for measuring efficiency of the heart... Electrons and protons paired in atom nucleus... |
Science News
July 5, 2003 |
From the July 1, 1933, issue Seven mummies from Texas cave brought to Smithsonian... Successes in atom smashing evaluated by Dr. Millikan... Atomic bombardment breaks up more elements |
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. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Josie Glausiusz |
Star Power: Why Fusion Proves Elusive In his Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, Charles Seife says "Fusion is as close as science gets to something for nothing." |
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
June 28, 2012
Jennifer Newton |
Extracting nuclear energy from seawater It's estimated that there's more than 4.5 billion tons of uranium in the ocean. US scientists have used a ligand that can form a complex with a uranyl ion to enable uranium to be extracted from seawater. |
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... |
Science News
March 16, 2002 |
TimeLine: March 12, 1932 Scientists unearth new portrait of King Tut's girl-wife... Tapping of the atom's energy achieved in new experiment... Scientists learning secret of how plants manufacture food... |
Chemistry World
May 30, 2012
Jon Cartwright |
Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization. |
Chemistry World
November 13, 2012
Simon Cotton |
Periodically updated Any reader will glean much from A Guide to the Elements by Albert Stwertka. Some ill-informed critics claim that chemistry is a worked-out discipline: this book reminds readers that chemistry is alive and vital. |
Technology Research News
October 6, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Atomic clock to sync handhelds Its physics package, or atomic works, is about the size of a grain of rice, making it potentially easy to mass produce and integrate with hand-helds and other electronics. It is accurate within 25 microseconds per day, or about a second per 126 years. |
Reactive Reports
November 2007
David Bradley |
Organic Uranium The first ever uranium methylidyne molecule has been synthesized by US chemists despite the reactivity of the heavy, heavy metal. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 9, 2008
Prachi Patel-Predd |
Antineutrino Detector Could Spot Atom Bomb Cheats A new type of detector that researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Sandia National Laboratories, recently tested detects particles known as antineutrinos that fly out of the reactor. The device can help in monitoring nuclear reactors. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
Paul Wallich |
Fusion on a Budget Building your own nuclear fusion reactor is easier than you think |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2010
Adee & Guizzo |
Nuclear Reactor Renaissance Nuclear reactor design is poised for a desperately needed revival. Here are seven contenders |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2005
Lahey et al. |
Bubble Power Tiny bubbles imploded by sound waves can make hydrogen nuclei fuse--and may one day become a revolutionary new energy source. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Willie D. Jones |
A Fusion Thruster for Space Travel Clean, highly energetic reaction delivers a lot of drive from a drop of fuel. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2012
Rachel Courtland |
The Kilogram, Reinvented Two difficult experiments are poised to remake one of the world's most fundamental units |
Chemistry World
July 22, 2008 |
Weighing Molecules with Nanotubes US scientists have made a nanoscale mass sensor which can weigh molecules with atomic precision. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2012
Dave Levitan |
The Rich and Their Reactors Branson, Gates, and Bezos are pushing for nuclear reactors of one sort or another |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
Mark Anderson |
New Cold Fusion Evidence Reignites Hot Debate Telltale neutrons appear, but skepticism remains. |
