In the search for superheavy elements, element 112 was a stepping stone towards the 'islands of stability'. Sigurd Hofmann now relates the steps that led to its 'creation' and detection.

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

This was a surprise as the half-life for that particular xenon was a half-life of 18 billion trillion years. That’s more than ...