An element is a substance that cannot be broken down into any other substance. Every element is made up of its own type of atom. This is why the chemical elements are all very different from each ...

Scientists use the periodic table to quickly refer to information about an element, like atomic mass and chemical symbol ... Since then, the periodic table has evolved to reflect over 150 years of ...

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

Players read questions about energy levels and score points by picking the correct element as the answer. Electrons are in regions around the nucleus that are different distances away from the nucleus ...

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 ...