ORNL’s David Radford displays a germanium detector of his design (its central contact visible at the 3 in. mark), vital to the LEGEND research efforts. Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford ...

Since the 1960s, one constant in this ongoing pursuit of elusive subatomic knowledge has been the chemical element germanium. Situated in the carbon column of the periodic table between silicon ...

With a dramatic setting in a plunging river valley, Georgia’s capital Tbilisi offers an intriguing range of architecture and ...

The term "rare" refers to the supposed scarcity of these minerals and "earth" comes from an old name for oxides, the chemical form for these elements in the mineral ...

The periodic table thus established remained until the ... GROUP 4A—CarlJon-group: C, Si, Ti, Ge, Zr, Sn, Ce, Lu, Pb, and Th. They are tetravalent, and as according to the newer theories the ...

A clean energy transition is happening all over the world as the worsening climate crisis creates an urgent need to decarbonize energy systems.  Unlike fossil fuels like coal and oil, clean energy ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...

Scientists have discovered 'berkelocene,' the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. The breakthrough disrupts long-held theories about the chemistry ...

The breakthrough disrupts long-held theories about the chemistry of the elements that follow uranium in the periodic table. A research team led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...

For professor of chemistry and physics Richard Zare, the goal for CHEM 29N: Chemistry in the Kitchen is not to make students ...