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

A 24-year-old Australian man could go to jail for ten years as he prepares to plead guilty for importing plutonium from a ...

Using an infrared pulsed carbon dioxide laser, project leader Howard Milchberg and his team showed that they could detect low levels of α radiation from a polonium-210 source sitting 10 m away ...

An Australian man described as a "science nerd" may face jail time, after attempting to collect all the elements in the ...

Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising yet challenging source of minerals: ...

An atom is so small that a single drop of water contains more than a billion atoms. Although tiny, atoms are mostly empty ...

Emmanuel Steven Lidden could be sentenced to 10 years in jail after ordering radioactive substances, including plutonium, in ...

Prosecuting lawyers are pushing for a “science nerd” to receive a custodial sentence for importing plutonium and uranium -- ...

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 ...

The researchers named the molecule berkelocene because its structure is analogous to a uranium organometallic complex called “uranocene ... Traditional understanding of the periodic table suggests ...

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 ...