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Making new elements: three new elements - 110,111,112 - have been produced over the past several years. Scientists are now struggling to create 113 and 114. How many elements can they add to the periodic table?

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The history of the production of chemical elements 112 and 113 are presented. The technology for making new elements have interesting implications on chemical research, from the study of new isotopes of elements to the development of new fusion techniques.

Author: Armbruster, Peter, Hessberger, Fritz Peter
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
Research, History, Chemistry, Transactinide elements, Chemical elements

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Breaking network logjams

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Network coding is a new revolution for limiting logjams in communications network because it has proved to make the network more efficient as well as faster, more reliable and better resistant to attack.

Author: Effros, Michelle, Koetter, Ralf, Medard, Muriel
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2007
United States, Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Analysis, Computer networks, Usage, Network management systems, Network management, Technology application, Information networks, Computer network protocols, Communications protocols, Protocol, Network capacity management, Network management device

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The Nobel Prizes: a network of past and future excellence

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The most vital tasks of the Nobel Foundation are to assure that the Nobel activities remain independent of any government organizations and to manage the monetary value of the Nobel Prizes.

Author: Sohlman, Michael
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
Management, Nobel prizes, Nobel Foundation

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