A team of scientists has discovered a new form of the human-made element mendelevium. The newly created isotope, mendelevium-244, is the 17th and lightest form of the element, which was first ...

Nuclear scientists are extremely interested in how different combinations of protons and neutrons affect the structure of the nucleus. Newly discovered isotopes have unique combinations of protons and ...

The search for new elements is something that scientists have been doing for hundreds of years. Once Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev organised the elements known at his time according to a repeating, ...

This element is the first that was man-made in the laboratory, one atom at a time. Mendelevium is an actinoid that can synthesised in the lab by bombarding einsteinium-253 with alpha particles (helium ...

A team of scientists working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered a new form of the human-made element mendelevium. The newly created isotope, mendelevium-244, is the ...