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

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

The position of an element on the periodic table provides information about its ... Diamond is a form of carbon. Carbon is a non-metal. In the form of diamond it has a high melting point and ...

Heavy element researchers have been keen to lock down the 15 radioactive elements in the periodic table's actinide series ...

You interact with about two-thirds of the elements of the periodic table every day. Some, like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, make up our bodies and the air we breathe. Yet there is also a class of ...

Organometallic molecules, which consist of a metal ion surrounded by a carbon-based framework ... behave relative to their peers in the periodic table," said Stefan Minasian, a scientist in ...

“This is the first time that evidence for the formation of a chemical bond between berkelium and carbon has been obtained. The discovery provides new understanding of how berkelium and other actinides ...