Since their discovery in the late nineteenth century, the group 18 elements have been notoriously reluctant to engage in chemical reactions — so much so that they came to be called the noble gases.

For the first time, researchers have created a solid compound containing a beryllium-beryllium bond (Science 2023, DOI: 10.1126/science.adh4419). The compound is diberyllocene, in which each beryllium ...

High-temperature solutions called fluxes are widely used to synthesize solid compounds. The composition and structural properties of reaction products in a two-component flux system can now be tuned ...

Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are exploring ways to use an inexpensive and layered superconductor compound to efficiently store hydrogen. They have already discovered the ...