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

Unlike other elements reportedly gathered by Lidden, the plutonium sparked a major hazmat alert, requiring a response from the Australian Border Force (ABF) officials, firefighters, and police. He and ...

Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what ...

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered 'berkelocene,' the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. The breakthrough disrupts long-held theories about the ...

A heavy metal molecule with Berkeley roots Berkelium is one of 15 actinides in the periodic table's f-block. One row above the actinides are the lanthanides. The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn ...

Humans are made of many chemical elements that work together to create our complex bodies. The elements are like pieces of a puzzle, each playing a unique and essential role in maintaining our health.