This week, we meet the element berkelium, a transuranic actinide element that has the symbol, Bk, and the atomic number 97. This element is named for the city of Berkeley, the home of one of the ...

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 ...

Working with berkelium compounds is extremely challenging because only small amounts of purified isotopes can be made and because of the radioactivity of berkelium and its decay products. Despite ...

A research team recently discovered the first organometallic molecule — coined “berkelocene” — containing the heavy element berkelium at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab. An ...

Berkelium is a synthetic, radioactive element that was first made at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory located in Berkeley, California (hence the name "berkelium") in 1949. It is a soft, ...

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

Heavy elements known as the actinides are important materials for medicine, energy, and national defense. But even though the first actinides were discovered by scientists at Berkeley Lab more than 50 ...

Working with berkelium compounds is extremely challenging because only small amounts of purified isotopes can be made and because of the radioactivity of berkelium and its decay products. Despite ...