Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Element 99 — mysterious and exceptionally radioactive — sits inconspicuously in the bottom row of the periodic table. Named for ...

First conceived in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of Elugelab in 1952, the heavy element einsteinium is one of the shier members of the Periodic Table; it doesn’t ...

For the first time since the 1970s, researchers have made enough of the element einsteinium to experiment with it. Join Pop Mech Pro and get exclusive answers to your most pressing science questions, ...

Berkeley Lab scientists Leticia Arnedo-Sanchez (from left), Katherine Shield, Korey Carter, and Jennifer Wacker had to take precautions against radioactivity as well as coronavirus to conduct ...

Berkeley Lab scientists Jennifer Wacker (from left), Leticia Arnedo-Sanchez, Korey Carter, Katherine Shield work in the chemistry lab of Rebecca Abergel. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...