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

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 ...

A Colorado ski instructor turns his encyclopedic knowledge of snow into a chart of more than 130 terms, including cold smoke, mashed potatoes and ... screaming lobster!

Lidden pleaded guilty to offences under Australia's nuclear non-proliferation act that carry a possible 10-year jail sentence ...

Electrochemical devices like batteries and fuel cells help power our modern lives. These devices traditionally contain a ...

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 ...

State Rep. Rob North in his March 7 “Legislative review” incorrectly equates phosphorous with dirt. Phosphorous is one of the essential building blocks of all matter. It is one of the 118 elements of ...

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.