One of the proud achievements of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the discovery of three elements either by its own staff or in collaboration with other institutions in the United States and Russia.

Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...

Nearly 80 years after scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory discovered an extremely rare radioactive element called promethium, a team at the lab published a landmark study on the subject that ...

In a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers present the first ever detection of rare Earth elements produced in a neutron star merger. When two neutron stars (collapsed cores ...

Scientefic discovery 2025: Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have announced a breakthrough in the creation of superheavy elements, as per a report. Scientists Successfully Create ...