Before the late Darleane Hoffman discovered ways to study rare elements and isotopes and advanced understanding of nuclear fission, she was a student at Iowa State University, where she found her ...

Darleane C. Hoffman, a trailblazing nuclear chemist who was hailed by Discover magazine as one of the 50 most important women in science and whose research confirmed the existence of several elusive ...

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the understanding of nuclear fission. By Delthia Ricks Darleane C. Hoffman, a ...

Governor Bill Haslam visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Friday to recognize a team of scientists who discovered a new set of super-heavy elements in 2010. The lab was involved in experiments for ...

The discovery of rutherfordium-252, the shortest-lived superheavy nucleus with a 60-nanosecond half-life, advances the understanding of the “island of stability” and lays groundwork for further ...

On a stage in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris, Yuri Oganessian holds a microphone in one hand and a small remote control in the other. Over ...

Albert Ghiorso, 95, a retired Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) nuclear researcher and codiscoverer of 12 chemical elements, died on Dec. 26, 2010, at his home in Berkeley, Calif., of heart ...

A team of researchers from GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz has succeeded in exploring the limits of the so-called island of stability within the ...