The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams achieved the highest-power beam of uranium ions ever in the world. "We're already now in ...

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 ...

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the ...

The chart of nuclides sorts isotopes by their proton vs. neutron numbers. This region shows newly discovered isotopes (yellow) that were produced at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams by fragmenting ...

The researchers analyzed lunar samples that had remained unopened since they were collected by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972.

Eighty out of the first 82 elements in the periodic table have stable isotopes. Measuring and analysing their distribution allows for many practical applications. The IAEA assists Member States in ...

Sealed Apollo 17 samples analyzed with new techniques reveal that the Moon’s interior contains sulfur isotopes unlike those ...

Unlocking Scalable Quantum Computing The use of high-purity Barium-137 is emerging as a critical enabler of ion-trap quantum computing, one of the leading approaches to building large-scale quantum ...

More than 50 years after the Apollo 17 Moon rocks returned to Earth, researchers are still uncovered surprising new details ...

THE first Friday evening discourse of the new session at the Royal Institution was delivered on November 2 by Dr. F. W. Aston, who took as his subject “Elements and Isotopes”. That a chemical element ...