Spartan researchers help show how small changes in an atom's nucleus can make a big impact on research in medicine, astrophysics and more In 1922, British scientists Frederick Soddy and Francis ...

For decades, scientists have relied on a chemical fingerprint inside water molecules to determine where plants get their moisture. The method shaped our understanding of drought resilience, ...

Marissa Grunes is a freelance science writer and Lecturer in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics and Society at CU Boulder. Every semester, she takes first-year Engineering students on a tour ...

A new review argues that stable isotope fractionation patterns, long used to reconstruct Earth's history, could become ...

Both radioisotopes and enriched stable isotopes are essential to a wide variety of applications in medicine, where they are used in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses. In addition, extensive ...

Challenges, breakthroughs and big ideas in the race to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Dec 5, 2024 at 8:46 am December 12, 2024 at 10:09 am Chris Dunckley (left), TerraPower Isotopes’ ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — You might have thought that scientists had already cataloged the 118 natural elements–from hydrogen to silicon to uranium–and their various isotopes. Unfortunately, only the first ...

Examples of stable isotopes being used to support research include, studying water extraction methods from plants, to how habitat changes have incited more attacks by coyotes on humans. Stable ...

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams opens its doors to experiments that will study the formation of heavy elements in the Universe and provide critical tests of nuclear theories. The Facility for Rare ...