Just a quick one to paste verbatim the message from Michael Thoennessen from Michigan State University.  He heads up a project which tracks discovery of isotopes, and he has spotted a new slew of first observations as follows: Dear Isotope Friends, Five new proton-rich and seventeen new neutron-rich nuclides were observed with the RI-Beam Factory at RIKEN, Japan. In the article " First Observation of Twenty-two Exotic Isotopes Using a 208Pb Primary Beam at RIBF " published in the journal Progres