Valued at 400 times the price of gold, californium is a rare metal with vital applications in science, medicine and cancer ...

Californium does not occur naturally on Earth. Its production process is both lengthy and expensive, making it a synthetic ...

californium), or for fellow scientists (curium, einsteinium, fermium). But Seaborg modestly discounts his achievements: “It was just a matter of being there. After all, we had the cyclotron.” ...

Ever since receiving the special waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) in 2008, India has been expanding its nuclear ...

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Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, ...

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say they have developed the technology that could finally produce the ...