Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...

Isotope hydrology helps governments find and understand the source of their water supplies – so they can develop management ...

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

After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

A heavy metal molecule with Berkeley roots Berkelium is one of 15 actinides in the periodic table's f-block ... free syntheses with highly radioactive isotopes. Then, with just 0.3 milligram ...

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. Geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where ...

Berkelium is one of 15 actinides in the periodic table's f-block ... enabling air-free syntheses with highly radioactive isotopes. Then, with just 0.3 milligram of berkelium-249, the researchers ...

An atom is so small that a single drop of water contains more than a billion atoms. Although tiny, atoms are mostly empty space. The simplified model of the atom is that of a cloud of negative ...