Einsteinium is mainly used to make heavier elements, such as mendelevium — first discovered by Ghiorso's team when bombarding 253 Es with alpha particles. In addition, ...

Einsteinium itself is unlikely to find any practical use anytime soon. But other heavy elements could, like actinium, which is a bit lighter with 89 protons and 89 electrons.

Einsteinium is a soft, silvery metallic element with the symbol 'Es' and an atomic number of 99 (that is, is nucleus contains 99 protons). Like all the other elements in the so-called 'actinide ...

Einsteinium is currently the heaviest chemical element that can be examined in this way – so it’s exciting for chemists that new ground has been broken by this recent paper.

But einsteinium-254’s half-life meant that roughly 7 percent of the sample was lost each month that ticked by during the lockdown. “By the time we got back into the lab, ...

Einsteinium, the 99th element on the Periodic Table of Elements, is a synthetic element that is produced in extremely small amounts and with a very short lifetime. If the name seems familiar, it's ...

Einsteinium 253 is the most common isotope of this element and has a half-life of 20 days. It has been noted that due to high radioactivity of the element, most of it has decayed since the ...

But einsteinium's instability limited scientists ability to study the element. Before researchers at Berkeley could test the element's properties, they had to acquire a stable sample.

Einsteinium’s shortest half life is just six seconds for the isotope einsteinium-240, but the half life for the einsteinium-254 that scientists made in this reaction is 276 days.

There are many elements on the periodic table, but just because scientists know that they exist doesn’t mean they’ve taken the time to study them … ...

Einsteinium was first created in 1952 in the aftermath of the first hydrogen bomb test on the island of Elugelab, which is now a part of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Nuclear PPE Leticia Arnedo-Sanchez (from left), Katherine Shield, Korey Carter, and Jennifer Wacker take precautions against radioactivity as well as coronavirus to conduct experiments in Rebecca ...