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Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are using the 88-Inch Cyclotron to help steady the famous periodic table of elements one atom at a time where it's gone a ...

Researchers have directly observed the heaviest atom yet participating in a chemical reaction and forming a molecule. The finding pushes “superheavy” chemistry, which involves extremely massive ...

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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 ...

ILL High Flux reasearch reactor: Cherenkov radiation visible in the reactor pool. Credit: Jean-Louis Baudet Einsteinium-255, produced through irradiation in ILL’s high-flux reactor, provided a ...