Episode 1: The Quest for Element 120 and the Elusive Island of Stability

In Memoriam: Rod Clark

Ion Recycling to Illuminate the Heaviest Elements

Illustration of the ion trap used by the ISOLDE team to measure the electron affinity of chlorine. In the trap, chlorine anions are reflected back and forth between two electrostatic ion mirrors, allowing the laser beam (pink) to probe the anions for much longer than in conventional measurements. The laser frequency is tuned to find the exact photon energy above which the extra electron (small white circle) is removed from the anion.

BBC Podcast: New Elements

Image depicting elements on playing cards overlayed over a representation of the periodic table.

GRETA: World’s most powerful detector to examine nuclear ‘fingerprints’ with 100x sensitivity

A group of five people (two women and three men) stand next to a large, spherical scientific machine.

GRETA to Open a New Eye on the Nucleus

Two people surrounded by a large aluminum sphere with dozens of cables.

New Technique Sheds Light on Chemistry at the Bottom of the Periodic Table

Two people in safety glasses hold glass beakers containing ball-and-stick models of nobelium molecules. They are surrounded by lab equipment that includes wires, foil-wrapped cables, metal apparatuses, and a computer screen showing data. Images of molecules are projected on the ceiling panels.

NSD Hosts the 22nd Annual Exotic Beam Summer School

photograph of the group of participants of the summer school.

NSD Welcomes Summer Interns

Workshop and Dedication Event Celebrates the Near Completion of GRETA and a Decade of Science with GRETINA

A group of people standing in front of a piece of scientific equipment.

Building a Data Pipeline to Accelerate Discovery

Erich Leistenschneider announced as one of the winners of the 2025 FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers 

GRETA Dedication: Celebrating a Decade of GRETINA Science

Julian Kahlbow Receives 2025 FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science Award

GRETA Demonstrates Key Performance Parameters

Element 116 efforts featured in two articles

Towards the Discovery of New Elements: Production of Livermorium (Z=116) with 50Ti

An expanded periodic table shows where researchers expect elements 119 and 120 to be categorized if they are discovered.

NSD Research Scientist Jennifer Pore Receives DOE Early Career Research Award

In Memorium – Frank Samuel Stephens Jr.

A New Way to Make Element 116 Opens the Door to Heavier Atoms

GRETA Makes Its First Move

First half assembly of the GRETA lifted by crane

Erich Leistenschneider named as award recipient for the 2024 Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Visiting Scholar Program

Collaboration Fuels High-Speed, Data-Intensive Research to Understand How Nuclei Decay

Divining the mysteries of the atomic nucleus