The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested two persons from near the NSCBI airport near Kolkata with around 250 grams of suspected Californium, a synthetic radioactive material that is often ...

This week, we meet the element, californium. I'll give you three guesses as to where this element's name comes from -- and your first two guesses don't count! Californium is a radioactive actinoid ...

This element is one of many first made at UC Berkeley in the 1950s. Unlike most manufactured elements, though, this one is actually useful. This is how it starts up nuclear reactions. Researchers ...

Henry S. La Pierre is in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program, School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of ...

What's the best Philip K. Dick adaptation? There are countless to choose from, but it's Total Recall that always gets my vote: so many mirthless movies miss out on the schlocky, ludicrous sense of fun ...

Storing radioactive waste poses a problem for nuclear power facilities worldwide and often leads to heated debates over the pitfalls of nuclear energy production. Pictured, environmental activists ...

Fans of Philip K. Dick know him as the reality-bending author who helped elevate mid-century science fiction from pulp to respectable literature. His visions of artificial intelligence were scripted ...

A frustrating, limited exploration game as well as a delirious celebration of one of sci-fi's greats, Californium is a fascinating oddity. I'm sat in a chair stabbing at a clacking typewriter in an ...

At today’s prices, one gramme of californium-252 can be valued at around $27 million, a figure that can exceed the value of roughly 200 kg of gold depending on where gold is trading. That headline ...

Research on a little-known element called californium may open up completely new opportunities to store radioactive waste and recycle radioactive fuel. The team behind the study, published in the ...

Challenging previously held views, scientific results show that californium can covalently bond with borate, dramatically altering the electronic characteristics of the californium ion. This research ...