Emmanuel Lidden from Australia took it as a real challenge: he wanted to collect all the elements of the periodic table. But ...

But how many of these elements do you know? Test your knowledge and compete with other Live Science readers to see who can ...

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

John Sutton described his client as an “innocent collector” and “science nerd”, claiming Lidden “did not import or possess these items with any sinister intent”. “These offences were committed out of ...

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

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 National ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

In the Introductory Seminar CHEM 29N: "Chemistry in the Kitchen" students learn about the chemical makeup of food.

During the process, they discovered something unexpected about this particular f-block element on the periodic table that could help us understand transuranium elements more broadly as well as ...

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