Fri, March 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM UTC However, that was only the beginning of berkelium’s story, and now more than 75 years later, scientists from the same laboratory that first discovered the ...

To be able to add to the Periodic Table of elements is an honour that only a handful of scientists have experienced, but now a research team from Japan can join that illustrious list. Scientists at ...

Scientists have managed to successfully make a transuranium complex where the central metal, here neptunium, forms a multiple bond to just one other element. Enabling study of such a bonding ...

Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...

Near the beginning of time, the universe almost certainly contained many elements heavier than uranium, the heaviest element that exists naturally on earth. Gradually these “transuranium” elements ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the transuranium element berkelium. According to a new study, the electronic signature of ...