Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments seek secure supply.

Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments seek secure supply.

Naturally occurring elements are critical to our daily lives, but some of them have supply chain risks, and the processes needed to mine and refine them come at considerable environmental cost. These ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements related to transuranium elements that led to his winning the 1951 Nobel Prize ...

Before their falling out, however, they named the new element after the Latin word for violet or indigo, indicum, since its ...

A research team led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered "berkelocene," the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing ...

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