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

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

Taking the soluble copper content in water quality samples as the research object, a mathematical model was established and flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry was used to analyze the ...

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

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Electrochemical devices like batteries and fuel cells help power our modern lives. These devices traditionally contain a ...

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

Researchers named the compound “berkelocene” because it is comparable to the compound “uranocene,” a uranium-containing ...

During the process, they discovered something unexpected about this particular f-block element on the periodic table that could help us understand transuranium elements more broadly as well as ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of organometallic chemistry. They have synthesized and ...

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.