Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look ...

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

German chemists have created the first-ever boron-carbon triple bond which opens new possibilities for molecular innovation.

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

Researchers have synthesised a triple bond between carbon and boron for the first time. This discovery could help chemists ...

Scientists in Germany have achieved something never seen before: creating a stable boron-carbon triple bond. While triple ...

Scientists have discovered 'berkelocene,' the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. The breakthrough disrupts long-held theories about the chemistry ...