Geng Deng relates how terbium, a garden-variety lanthanide, has found its way into our daily lives owing to its green phosphorescence. It may be one of the rarer rare-earth elements in the Earth's ...

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The radiopharmaceutical consists of a radioactive molecule – in this case terbium-161 linked to a ligand. This ligand recognises proteins on the tumour cell, allowing highly targeted cancer ...

Terbium, a rare earth metal that belongs to the lanthanoids, has been detected on KELT-9, the galaxy’s hottest exoplanet, which orbits its distant star about 670 light years from earth. In a new ...

Penn State researchers have developed a new sensor to find the valuable rare earth element terbium in samples drawn from the environment such as acid mine waste. Terbium is one of the rarest of ...