What is the heaviest element in the universe? Are there infinitely many elements? Where and how could superheavy elements be ...

At first glance there's nothing odd about naming element 99 in the periodic table 'einsteinium'. After all, Einstein is the most famous scientist that has ever lived. Yet fame is not usually a good ...

Speaker Lætitia H. Delmau is th recipient of the prestigious 2024 Glenn T. Seaborg Actinide Separations Award.

However, to make elements 119 or 120, researchers need einsteinium or fermium, which are not synthezied in sufficient ...

The ninety-ninth element in the periodic table was discovered shortly after Einstein's death in 1955, and it was named "einsteinium." "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is ...

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have discovered a new way to create superheavy elements.

But only two elements have been named after living people. One is element 99, einsteinium. The other is element 106, called seaborgium in honour of the American chemist Glenn Seaborg. Seaborg's career ...