Researchers have dated volcanic layers at six fossil-bearing sites in Turkey, including one known as Taşhan (shown). The ...

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

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 ...

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 transuranium element berkelium. According to a new study, the electronic signature of ...

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

More stable isotopes can also be identified by magic numbers, and double magic means an extra level of stability, providing resistance against nuclear decay. The Periodic Table Officially Has 4 ...

One of the severed heads found at Ullastret. Credit: MAC-Ullastret a De Prado. Among the ruins of ancient cities scattered across northeastern Spain, archaeologists have uncovered a grisly yet ...

First of a two-part look at border life. Last year, Elmer—whose last name is withheld because he fears deportation—traveled alone by foot, truck, and bus from Colombia to the Mexico-Texas ...

Fusion, on the other hand, works by combining light atomic nuclei, such as hydrogen isotopes, under extreme heat and pressure — mimicking the processes that power the Sun. Unlike fission ...