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

Scientists use the periodic table to quickly refer to information about an element, like atomic mass and chemical ... over 150 years of scientific development and understanding in chemistry and ...

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

The Periodic Table is an amazing chemistry tool that is organized with elements in order of increasing atomic number. The properties of the element change as you move across the row, but are similar ...

This makes bismuth unique among the heavy metals, and has earned it the status of a 'green element'. For this reason, the world of cosmetic and medicinal chemistry has paid it particular attention.

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

Scientists in Germany have achieved something never seen before: creating a stable boron-carbon triple bond. While triple ...

Mitch André Garcia considers the disputed discovery of element 104 and takes a look at how the chemistry of this synthetic element is developing. Rutherfordium, the 104th element on the periodic ...

For many years, the Heavy Element Chemistry group in Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division has been dedicated to preparing organometallic compounds of the actinides, because these molecules ...