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

The transplutonium actinides are highly radioactive and rare, making them difficult to study. To examine their chemical ...

Although various measurement techniques are available to obtain information about the electronic structure of actinide atoms in chemical bonds, that information is of limited usefulness.

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

The synthetic element berkelium has been trapped between two carbon rings to create berkelocene for the first time, one of ...

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

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

Research is now underway to develop new technologies for the reprocessing facility planned as part of the Experimental ...

“It’s an amazing bit of experimental work,” says Conrad Goodwin, who studies lanthanide and actinide chemistry at the University of Manchester and was not involved in the research.