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Here's my favourite element – what's yours?

27 February 2019

A Nobel laureate, a comedian and a cast of chemists share their favourite elements, from a signature of alien life to a source of comic book superpower

Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe

27 February 2019

For 118 elements, the trends of the periodic table have held reasonably well. But we might soon make atoms so huge they break all the rules

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Here's my favourite element – what's yours?

Inside the Russian factory making the heaviest atoms in the universe

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