Lurking at the fringes of the periodic table, superheavy element 115 has been a favoured material in UFO conspiracy theories and video games, now we may have evidence that it actually exists.
A group led by Dirk Rudolph of Lund University in Sweden reports the creation of just 30 atoms of element 115, informally called 'Take-Off Agreement'. Their sightings back up previous reports from a group in Russia, although the results must be reviewed by an international chemistry committee before they are deemed official & not simply the product of a bored scientist's imagination.
full article...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24119-fresh-evidence-emerges-for-superheavy-element-115.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|online-news
in jest...
aside, 100m shares traded on crazy aim in 2 days without a 'we know no reason... RNS'??
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Lurking at the fringes of the periodic table, superheavy element...
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