Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 19 July 2002:
Vol. 297. no. 5580, pp. 313 - 315
DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5580.313
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

News of the Week

HEAVY-ION PHYSICS:
Heavy-Element Fizzle Laid to Falsified Data

Charles Seife

In 1999, physicists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California startled many of their colleagues with an announcement that they had discovered elements 118 and 116 by smashing lead nuclei and krypton nuclei together. That surprise turned out to be justified: LBNL has concluded that the "discovery" of elements 118 and 116 was based on falsified data.

Read the Full Text

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)