Highlights

19.09.2014: Seaborgium Hexacarbonyl: First Carbonyl Complex of a Superheavy Element

Life is short for the heaviest elements. They emerge from high-energy nuclear collisions with scant time for detection before they break up into lighter atoms. Even et al. report that even a few seconds is long enough for carbon to bond to the 106th element, seaborgium ...

02.05.2014: Superheavy Element 117 Confirmed – On the Way to the "Island of Stability"

New findings mark important step towards the capability to observe long-lived superheavy nuclei ...