Cutout of the periodic table: The height of the bars of the highlighted elements represents the strength of the bonding on a quartz surface. Credit: A. Yakushev/Ch.E. Düllmann An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz, succeeded in determining the chemical properties of the … Read more
A chart of superheavy elements (SHEs), plotted by atomic number (protons) vs number of neutrons. Boxes are discovered SHEs, with predicted half-lives. The circle is an island of stability. Credit: Wikipedia Commons What is the heaviest element in the universe? Are there infinitely many elements? Where and how could superheavy elements be created naturally? The … Read more
Thank you very much. Whoa. Thank you. Ah, thank you very much. Thank you. What a crowd. Well, I want to thank everybody. There has never been spirit… You know, we did great, as you know, in 2016. We did much better in 2020, bad things happened there. But there’s never been spirit like we … Read more