This week, we meet the element, dubnium, which has the atomic symbol, Db and the atomic number, 105. It was named in honour of where it was first synthesised, Dubna, which lies north of Moscow in the ...

LET'S SAY YOU SUDDENLY have an exotic substance in hand and you want to characterize it. You might start by determining its melting point, getting an infrared spectrum, and maybe follow that up with ...

Discoveries are often built upon the work of many others. Sometimes the final act occurs in isolation and sometimes they occur at different places simultaneously by groups or individuals working ...

Dubnium was first discovered in 1967 by scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna while bombarding americium atoms with neon ions. In the same year, a team from the University of ...