Researchers discovered rutherfordium-252, the shortest-lived superheavy nucleus, refining the "island of stability" map and ...

A team of researchers has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the super-heavy nuclides more precisely by measuring the super-heavy rutherfordium-252 ...

which marks the position of the island's shoreline in nuclei of rutherfordium (Rf, element 104). To allow experimental detection, the minimum lifetime of superheavy nuclei is on the order of a ...

Trump aside, Rutherford did get the recognition he deserved for his work, including having the element "Rutherfordium" named after him. Mayor Smith has now issued an invite to Trump's team ...

Using this method, Zouhair Asfari, a chemist at the IPHC, notably enabled the generation of a titanium-50 beam intense enough to produce over 2000 nuclei of rutherfordium-256 (Z=104) in 2011. The same ...

Excerpt of the nuclear chart showing the measured decay properties of Rf-252.

It was physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander, who managed to reach that historic milestone in 1917 at Victoria University of Manchester in England and the element rutherfordium was named ...

We’re in the golden age of unique baby names — while “Emily” and “John” will always be classic choices, many people are searching for more uncommon names for their babies, and ...

The modern periodic table, arranged in rows and columns, was first introduced by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. At the time, it included the known elements and their properties, but Mendeleev predicted ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos. They are searching for dark matter using atomic ...