Researchers analyze the ratios of calcium isotopes in bones and fossils to learn more about what dinosaurs once ate. Credit: ...
Isotopes of a given element have the same number of electrons, but their atomic mass and nuclear spin differ through the number of neutrons. The trivial and prominent effect on isotope exchange is the ...
The discovery of stable ''isotopes" began with J. J. Thomson's identification of neon-22 in 1912 (Bievre et al., 1984). More than 90 naturally occurring elements have been identified on the earth; ...
An isotope is one of two or more atoms of the same chemical element with the same atomic number, occupying the same position on the periodic table and having almost identical chemical behavior, but ...
Artemis Spyrou receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. When you hear the term “radioactive” you likely think “bad ...
When Irish criminal investigators couldn’t identify a dismembered body, parts of which they found around a canal near Dublin in the spring of 2005, Wolfram Meier-Augenstein got a phone call. An ...