UC Berkeley secured its spot as the best public university in the U.S. in recent college rankings, but not without triggering ...

Highly radioactive, berkelium is not only difficult to handle, but difficult to get a hold of. The team had to put in a request to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which is most ...

Principal investigators Polly Arnold, left, and Stefan Minasian point at the Berkelium (Bk) where the Berkelocene molecule has been added in the Periodic Table after their discovery at the ...

"Traditional understanding of the periodic table suggests that berkelium would behave like the lanthanide terbium," Minasian says. Yet, unlike the lanthanide analogues, the berkelium ion is happier in ...

The compound contains a berkelium atom “sandwiched between two cyclic carbon molecules,” according to Polly Arnold, chemistry professor and Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division director.

Scientists from UB and the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered “berkelocene,” the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy ...

More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the transuranium element berkelium. According to a new study, the electronic signature ...

Rethinking the Periodic Table “Traditional understanding of the periodic table suggests that berkelium would behave like the lanthanide terbium,” said Minasian. “But the berkelium ion is much happier ...

Berkelium, element 97, is highly unstable and has largely remained a mystery since its discovery at its namesake Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US, in 1949. Only two nuclear reactors in the ...

Berkelium, one of 15 actinides in the periodic table’s f-block, was discovered by the pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg in 1949. But this heavy element is not easy to study because it is highly ...

Berkelium–carbon bonding in a tetravalent berkelocene. Science, 2025; 387 (6737): 974 DOI: 10.1126/science.adr3346 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientists from the University at Buffalo and the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered “berkelocene,” the first organometallic molecule to be ...