A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged titanium atoms, or ions, into a californium target.

An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest ...

Heavy ion bombardment of actinides at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russian Federation, added elements 104 to 106 to the ...

By 1939, 91 elements were known to exist, including uranium, which has 92 protons in each nucleus and, at the time, the highest atomic number in the periodic table. But element 61 was still not known ...

They will be introduced to the basic information given for the elements in most periodic tables: the name, symbol, atomic number, and atomic mass for each element. Students will focus on the first 20 ...

discuss the limit of the periodic table and revising the concept of the "island of stability" with recent advances in superheavy element research. Their work first appeared in Nature Reviews Physics.