Promethium’s short half-life and lack of stable isotopes makes it difficult to study. In addition, promethium is difficult to ...

By pinning down the berkelium atom, the team could test its electronic structure model using ...

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

This makes its behavior different from the lanthanide terbium, which is located above actinides in the periodic table. “The electronic structure calculations, as well as the experimental ...

This makes its behavior different from the lanthanide terbium, which is located above actinides in the periodic table. “The electronic structure calculations, as well as the experimental observations, ...

In an unexpected finding, electronic structure calculations performed ... table suggests that berkelium would behave like the lanthanide terbium," said Minasian. "But the berkelium ion is much ...