News tagged with element 114

Livermore and Russian scientists propose new names for elements 114 and 116

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) today recommended new proposed names for elements 114 and 116, the latest heavy elements to be added to the periodic table.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

After three years of review, two new elements finally added to the Periodic Table

(PhysOrg.com) -- After three years of review, a committee representing the governing bodies of both chemistry and physics, has published a paper on Pure and Applied Chemistry, accepting the work of a coll ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report

Six new isotopes of the superheavy elements discovered

(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. Starting ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Superheavy Element 114 Confirmed: A Stepping Stone to the Island of Stability

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (38) | comments 13




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Researchers develop first silicon wafer-scale 110 GHz phased array transmitter

(PhysOrg.com) -- TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, and The University of California, San Diego, provider of a leading program in microwave, millimeter-wave and mixed-signal RFICs, today announced ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Human origins traced to worm fossil in Canada

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most primitive known vertebrate and therefore the ancestor of all descendant vertebrates, including humans, discovered.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Biologists offer clearer picture of how protein machine systems tweak gene expression

Indiana University biologists have found that specific types of RNA polymerase enzymes, the molecular machines that convert DNA into RNA, can differ in function based on variation in the parts -- in this case ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists report first solar cell producing more electrons in photocurrent than solar photons entering cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (42) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

Dawn spacecraft begins science orbits of Vesta

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling towards its first of four intensive science orbits. That initial orbit of the rocky world Vesta begins Aug. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

How to discover a new element

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not the same as it used to be, the element finding business. We have discovered and named all the elements from hydrogen (element 1) up to element 112 (copernicium)[1], and last week ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Tests on century-old equipment show how far X-rays have come

Researchers recently tested first-generation x-ray equipment from 1896 and found that it produced radiation doses and exposure times that were vastly higher than those of today's systems, according a study published online ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nuclear missing link created at last: Superheavy element 117 (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaboration of Russian and US physicists has finally created element 117 - a superheavy element made of atoms containing 117 protons that is roughly 40% heavier than lead.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Setting out to discover new, long-lived elements

Besides the 92 elements that occur naturally, scientists were able to create 20 additional chemical elements, six of which were discovered at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Some discrepancies exist between outcomes indicated in trial registration and later publications

Comparison of the primary outcomes of registered clinical trials with their subsequent publication appears to show some discrepancies, according to a study in the September 2 issue of JAMA.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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