Since it was first synthesized in a post-WW2 American lab in 1949, berkelium has been a rebel of the periodic table, defying ...

Researchers named the compound “berkelocene” because it is comparable to the compound “uranocene,” a uranium-containing ...

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

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

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

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

The synthetic element berkelium has been trapped between two carbon rings to create berkelocene for the first time, one of ...

The transplutonium actinides are highly radioactive and rare, making them difficult to study. To examine their chemical ...

Key TakeawaysScientists have discovered "berkelocene," the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the ...