The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process ...

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

A significant negative δ 238 U excursion (~0.4‰) starting just prior to the onset of the negative carbon isotope excursion within the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE) has been recorded, followed ...

This paper gives a brief history of the scientific considerations leading to the development of laser isotope separation (LIS) processes. The close relationship of LIS to the broader field of ...

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

A five-dimensional model has successfully predicted the asymmetric fission of mercury isotopes, offering new insights into ...