Uranium enrichment concentrates one specific type of the atom to create a substance that can generate massive amounts of ...

An international research team led by GSI/FAIR, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) ...

While the Standard Model (SM) describes all known fundamental particles and many of the interactions between them, it fails ...

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

Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on ...

Iran has enriched large quantities of uranium to 60%. It’s easier to go from an enrichment of 60% to 90% cent than to get to ...

Isotopes, dinosaurs, and the redwood in the ravine. Isotopes are forms of an element that vary ever so slightly in their number of neutrons, leaving what you might call chemical ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Hello? Anyone still there? Isotopes are atoms of the same element with the same number of protons (which determine chemical behavior) but different numbers of neutrons (which don’t). As a result, ...

Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to ...