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

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

An Australian man described as a "science nerd" may face jail time, after attempting to collect all the elements in the ...

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

A 24-year-old Australian man could go to jail for ten years as he prepares to plead guilty for importing plutonium from a ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

We see a lot of clocks here at Hackaday, so many now that it’s hard to surprise us. After all, there are only so many ways to divide the day into intervals, as well as a finite supply of geeky ...

John Sutton described his client as an “innocent collector” and “science nerd”, claiming Lidden “did not import or possess ...

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

At Berkeley Lab's Heavy Element Research Laboratory, the team custom-designed new gloveboxes enabling air-free syntheses with highly radioactive isotopes.