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 ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...

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

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

Scientists have found that our bodies need 28 different elements to function properly. These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods.

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

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

In the Introductory Seminar CHEM 29N: "Chemistry in the Kitchen" students learn about the chemical makeup of food.

Researchers have synthesised a triple bond between carbon and boron for the first time. This discovery could help chemists ...

Key TakeawaysScientists have discovered "berkelocene," the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the ...