“I ask you,” the email to C&EN read, “is astatine more like a halogen or like a metal? This question awakens the inorganic chemist in everyone.” Whether or not you feel the same enthusiasm as the ...

Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth and one of the least studied within the periodic table, mostly because it lives up to its name, which is the Greek word for "unstable." ...

Radiopharmaceutical experts and researchers to gather June 19-20 in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS, May 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The first-ever U.S.-based meeting of the World Astatine Community will ...

This week, we meet the element astatine, whose very name tells us almost half of all that we know about it. Astatine's chemical symbol is At and its chemical number is 85. Its name comes from the ...

A research team from the Graduate School of Medicine at Osaka University has started an investigator-initiated clinical trial of sodium astatine ([211 At]NaAt) injection for refractory differentiated ...

CHESTER SPRINGS, Pa., July 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Curadh MTR Inc. ("Curadh") and Alpha Fusion, Inc. ("Alpha Fusion") will present on the clinical development of radiopharmaceutical products at the ...

Studying the infinitesimally rare element astatine can feel like chasing shadows. All of its isotopes are radioactive, the most stable having a half-life of 8 hours, and the estimated stock of ...

Scientists have carried out ground-breaking experiments to investigate the atomic structure of astatine (atomic number 85), the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth. Through experiments ...

NEW ORLEANS, May 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The first-ever U.S.-based meeting of the World Astatine Community will take place June 19-20, 2025 at the Sheraton in downtown New Orleans. The event will ...