{"id":208689,"date":"2025-03-14T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-radioactive-molecule-that-shouldnt-exist-but-scientists-made-it-happen"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:22:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:22:55","slug":"a-radioactive-molecule-that-shouldnt-exist-but-scientists-made-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-radioactive-molecule-that-shouldnt-exist-but-scientists-made-it-happen","title":{"rendered":"A Radioactive Molecule That Shouldn\u2019t Exist \u2014 But Scientists Made It Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-radioactive-molecule-that-shouldnt-exist-but-scientists-made-it-happen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have discovered \u201cberkelocene,\u201d the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. The molecule was synthesized using just 0.3 milligram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have discovered \u201cberkelocene,\u201d the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element berkelium. The molecule was synthesized using just 0.3 milligram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}