All man-made elements articles
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Review
Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Kit Chapman has been on a journey around the world to discover how new elements are made
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Opinion
The criteria for discovering a new element
Why the rules are changing in the search for superheavies
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Opinion
'It blows my mind I get to use these facilities'
Element discoverer Dawn Shaughnessy on big science, future generations and Star Wars
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News
Rules for element discovery get superheavy revamp
Chemistry and physics federations also define what counts as a ‘beyond superheavy element’
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Research
73 new exotic nuclei discovered at Japanese institute
Hunt for remaining 4000 predicted nuclides goes on but new technology is needed to find them all
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Podcast
Meitnerium
Nik Kaltsoyannis enlightens us on how an element was born out of difficult beginnings