Physicists just created an element using a particle beam

A scientist working on a separator in the experiment. Photo: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab

A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California announced today that they created livermorium, or element 116, using a titanium particle beam for the first time. The achievement puts scientists close to the island of stability, a theorized point where superheavy elements can be long-lived, making them easier to study. “We needed … Read more