Because the sound waves used to study the inner earth yield little about its chemistry, geoneutrinos should help shed light on the location and concentration of unstable elements. (scientificamerican.com)
The French artist Pierre Huyghe, who has stretched the concept of sculpture's stability in recent years by making work with decidedly unstable elements like bees, spiders, horseshoe crabs and artificial snowstorms, has won the Nasher Prize, an award created by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas to draw attention to the work of the most influential contemporary sculptors. (nytimes.com)
At the far end, in the table's highest numbers, lie unstable elements that only exist for fractions of a second before they radioactively decay. (discovermagazine.com)