Superheavy science: Lab's actinide abilities enable the discovery of new elements
It's elemental—scientists agree that the periodic table is incomplete.
Materials Science
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Tracing European conflicts using lead isotopes in paints used by Dutch masters
A team of researchers from Vrije University, Conservation & Science, Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam has found that it is possible to trace conflicts in Europe by analyzing lead isotopes in paint used by Dutch ...
Playing it safe: Scientist creates energetic compounds with isotopic labels
Ana Racoveanu is able to do something most others throughout the nuclear security enterprise cannot do—something challenging and extremely valuable throughout the complex.
Materials Science
Nov 30, 2021
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A doubly magic discovery
A team of researchers, including scientists from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU), have solved the case of zirconium-80's ...
General Physics
Nov 25, 2021
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Bismuth isotopes found to change shape from spheres to rugby balls
Alternating from spheres to rugby balls is no longer the sole preserve of mercury isotopes, an international team at CERN's ISOLDE facility reports in a paper published in Physical Review Letters.
Condensed Matter
Nov 18, 2021
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Early evaporation proven to be responsible for Earth's lack of volatile elements
Volatile elements, such as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur (S), are of profound importance for the formation, the differentiation and the habitability of a planet. However, today's Earth, though rich in life, contains ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 15, 2021
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Coal creation mechanism uncovered
The mechanism behind one of the first stages of coal creation may not be what we thought it was, according to a team of researchers who found that microbes were responsible for coal formation and production of methane in ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 11, 2021
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High-precision geochronology reveals high-resolution Ediacaran timescale
Researchers led by Prof. Zhu Maoyan from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) and their collaborators from the UK, the USA, and Russia have proposed new radioisotopic ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 3, 2021
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Targeting cancer at the nanoscale
Scientists from the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Tracer Kinetics at Osaka University developed a novel system for targeted cancer radiation therapy that uses gold nanoparticles labeled with astatine-211. Owing to the ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 19, 2021
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Creating and studying radioactive molecules advances nuclear structure and fundamental symmetry studies
An international team performed the world's first measurement of how the size of the radium nucleus modifies the structure of molecules containing different radium isotopes. The research used a combination of lasers and ion ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 18, 2021
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