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 ...

One never knows when one will need the properties of Rutherfordium in a hurry. See if you can organize the first 25 elements of the periodic table in order in the quiz below. The periodic table as ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...