Scientists have created six new isotopes of the superheavy elements, reaching in an unbroken chain of decays from element 114 down to rutherfordium. The discovery is a major step toward understanding ...

This week's element is rutherfordium, a synthetic transition metal that has the atomic symbol Rf and atomic number, 104. Its name was inspired by physicist Ernest Rutherford, who was born in New ...

Researchers used a particle accelerator and co-precipitation to study the chemical reactivity of single rutherfordium atoms. Such experiments will continue the advancement of relativistic chemistry ...

A team of researchers from GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the ...

Rutherfordium was first discovered by a team of scientists led by Georgy Flerov at the Russian Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna in 1964 while bombarding plutonium atoms with neon.

Gamma-ray spectroscopy of the superheavy nucleus 256 Rutherfordium reveals details of its nonspherical shape and internal structure—the heaviest element for which such information has been obtained.

In science, the passion for discovery drives great minds to answer the great questions about the world. The competitive atmosphere demands that scientists look at problems from multiple viewpoints and ...

For starters, elements 114 and 116 don't occur in nature. So don't look for them in your backyard. That's because they were made in a lab. Which may seem like cheating, but that's how it's done these ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114.

Berkeley, CA—A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has detected six isotopes, never seen before, of the superheavy elements 104 through 114.