Those exploring the uncharted seas at the fringes of the Periodic Table of the Elements have landed on one long-sought island -- the fabled Island of Stability, home of a new genre of superheavy ...

The island of enhanced stability of superheavy elements as seen in 2024: The coast has been reached and the experimenters have left the first footprints on the beach. Stability mountains are emerging, ...

One of the largest atomic nuclei known could lead to the discovery of superheavy elements that do not immediately decay. Physicists have created one of the heaviest elements yet, an atom with 117 ...

An element is defined according to the number of protons contained inside the nucleus of each atom. No two elements have the same number of protons, hence each element has a unique atomic number. The ...

On the periodic table, most elements have at least one stable form. But others have only unstable forms, all of which decay by emitting radiation and transforming into different elements until ...