Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working with international partners, have uncovered surprising behavior in a specially engineered crystal. Composed of tantalum ...

For decades, cobalt has served as a benchmark ferromagnet. Its crystal structure and magnetic properties have been extensively documented. However, the new findings show that cobalt hosts a rich ...

This illustration shows a typewriter with the keys depicted as the periodic table. Hands are typing on it, and the sheet of paper coming out of it shows the words "Tales from the table." Credit: Chris ...

The decay properties of 290116 and 291116, and the dependence of their production cross sections on the excitation energies of the compound nucleus, 293116, have been measured in the Cm245 (Ca48, ...

On a stage in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris, Yuri Oganessian holds a microphone in one hand and a small remote control in the other. Over ...

Recent news from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has demonstrated a new way to create superheavy element 116 (livermorium) using a 50-titanium beam targeting a 244-plutonium atom. Using the ...

In 1871, a hot-tempered Russian scientist called Dmitri Mendeleev laid out the most effective grouping of chemical elements. These groupings, which allegedly came to Mendeleev in a dream, organize ...