Swans on Tea

… he’s my unbibium.
Reports of a naturally occurring superheavy element
Non peer-reviewed reports, mind you, this is on arXiv
In the neighborhood of Z = 122, A = 292, abundance = 10^-12, relative to thorium, and a half-life in excess of 100 million years. Found when doing mass-spectrometry on Thorium. The half-life appears [...]

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Notice that the ears are cooler — an elephant uses its ears for thermoregulation. The same idea as fins on any heat sink: lots of surface area. That’s necessary because of the elephant’s shape (the spherical approximation is much more reasonable for [...]