The synthetic element berkelium has been trapped between two carbon rings to create berkelocene for the first time, one of ...

Californium, a metal synthesised in 1950, is the most expensive material in the world because of its extreme rarity and its ...

Berkelium-249 has a half-life of 330 days and decays to californium-249, a dangerous daughter that emits intense, high-energy γ radiation. These ferociously radioactive materials are also ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking ...

Not widely known outside of scientific circles, californium holds the atomic number 98 on the periodic table. It is a synthetic, silver-white, malleable metal that can be significantly deformed ...