It'll be interesting if they *do* print results, but it does seem as if follow-up is generally poor. While I was still in my teens (pre-20), one of my old science teachers mentioned a then-current article (a blurb, really, one or two paragraphs) in Time or Newsweek about discovery of some previously unknown heavy elements in a piece of African mica -- IOW, naturally occurring stable elements in the 120s somewhere -- and bemoaned the very same thing, 35 years ago, that there was never any followup. Of course, he shouldn't have been relying on Time or Newsweek anyway.
A while back now I tracked down a vintage article about this find, because frankly I'd not thought of it between that time and the teacher's diatribe. I wonder what I named it? I'm trying to find it on the hard drives. Hmm, nothin'. In any case, if such a discovery had been upheld, I think we'd have read about it by now, other than the possibility that elements (even stable ones) of that mass would be easy to fission, making miniature nuclear fission reactors (and bombs I suppose) practical for the first time.
