Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
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 of ...
Where were enslaved Africans taken from? The answer could be hidden in their bones.
Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help ...
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Nuclear battery that could last for 100 years created in China using radioactive carbon
Chinese researchers have built the country's first nuclear battery using carbon-14, a rare isotope of carbon, which can run ...
Where Does the Periodic Table End? Scientists “Milk” Atoms To Unveil Heavy Element Mysteries
Einsteinium-255, produced through irradiation in ILL’s high-flux reactor, provided a continuous supply of fermium-255, ...
The 'Double Magic' Atom Is a Physics Fairy Tale That Continues to Baffle Scientists
In the case of lead-208—the heaviest stable isotope known so far—a team of researchers led by physicist Jack Henderson ...
Scientists discover new heavy-metal molecule 'berkelocene'
A research team led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered ...
When did our ancestors start to eat meat regularly? Fossilized teeth get us closer to the answer
Atoms of the same element can have different versions, called isotopes, which have the same number of protons but different ...
Misha the elephant lived in zoos, but her tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations
Teeth recovered from a beloved zoo elephant that died in 2008 are helping University of Utah geologists develop a method for ...
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Heavy ligands unravel new chemistry for heavy elements
The transplutonium actinides are highly radioactive and rare, making them difficult to study. To examine their chemical ...
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Misha lived in zoos, but the elephant’s tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations
Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant’s teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations.