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Published online 23 August 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060821-8
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In search of the island of stability
New observations may help extend the periodic table.
Research unveiled this week may help pinpoint the 'island of stability' — a theoretical region of relatively stable but very heavy elements beyond the limits of the current periodic table.
Rolf-Dietmar Herzberg from the University of Liverpool, UK, heads a large team who have examined high-energy states of the element nobelium using the particle accelerator of the University of Jvyäskylä, Finland.
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