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

Einsteinium-255, produced through irradiation in ILL’s high-flux reactor, provided a continuous supply of fermium-255, ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have synthesized ...

An international team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new method for analyzing ...

Such questions exercised physicists greatly in the decades after Dmitri Mendeleev introduced his periodic table of the chemical elements in 1869. They received new impetus around the turn of the ...

The typical periodic table of elements focuses on two main metrics: the number of protons an element has and its chemical properties. In a Stanford-led study published in Nature on Jan. 20 ...

Bismuth, the 83rd element in the periodic table, has been known since ancient ... melting typesetting alloys that need to expand to fill printing moulds. Bismuth trioxide is also the main ...

Researchers have unveiled berkelocene, a compound containing the synthetic element berkelium nestled ... deeper into the lower reaches of the periodic table and could help solve puzzles about ...

Helium is one of the least reactive elements on the periodic table. Like the other noble gases, helium doesn’t gain or lose electrons easily and so does not normally form chemical compounds.

Rare earths are a group of 17 elements, including 15 silvery-white ... monitored as a barometer of global supply. In their periodic table order, they are: scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, cerium ...