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Physicists at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in China have observed the lightest uranium isotope to date, uranium-214 (214U), and precisely measured the α-decay properties of two previously known isotopes, 216U and 218U. Enhanced α-particle preformation in 214U and 216U. Image credit: Zhang et al., doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.152502. Uranium is a …

Physicists Create New Isotope of Mendelevium In an experiment performed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s 88-inch cyclotron, a team of physicists successfully created a new isotope of the human-made element mendelevium. FIONA at Berkeley Lab’s 88-inch cyclotron. Image credit: Marilyn Sargent / Berkeley Lab. Mendelevium, a synthetic radioactive element of …