Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have synthesized and ...

Heavy actinides—elements at the bottom of the periodic table, after plutonium—are radioactive, rare and chemically complex, ...

Heavy element researchers have been keen to lock down the 15 radioactive elements in the periodic table's actinide series ...

An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest ...

Beyond uranium lies a world of possibilities—elements too radioactive and unstable to ... steps of creation changed more than just the periodic table. In 1941, after Glenn Seaborg and his ...

That doesn’t make this gas any less heroic though: during the Cold War, its radioactive isotope Kr ... the most chequered past of all the elements on this list. Its first known use was quite ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

The periodic table of elements—also known as Mendeleev’s table—was developed in 1869 by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. It organizes all known chemical elements by their atomic number ...