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

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

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

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

A research team led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered ...

Although various measurement techniques are available to obtain information about the electronic structure of actinide atoms in chemical bonds, that information is of limited usefulness.

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

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

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

Research is now underway to develop new technologies for the reprocessing facility planned as part of the Experimental ...