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

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

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.

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 ...

Where does the periodic table of elements end, and what processes give rise to heavy elements? An international research team has conducted experiments at the GSI/FAIR accelerator facility and ...

It is a sandwich with the rarest of fillings. Researchers have unveiled berkelocene, a compound containing the synthetic element berkelium nestled neatly between two ring-shaped molecules (Science ...

One of the most powerful nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) magnets in the world has been delivered to the University of Warwick. The magnet, which is being installed at the Engineering and Physical ...

When someone says that ‘everything happens for a reason’ they betray their deterministic wiring. Yet connecting cause and effect is a tricky business, and never more so than when probability is ...

Iron deficiency anemia is one of the most common nutrient deficiencies worldwide. Iron is essential for forming red blood cells and delivering oxygen throughout the body. Anemia occurs when there are ...