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.

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of ...

But the most interesting point is that, if we take the atomic weight of the lead isotope derived from uranium as 206.0, and that derived from thorium as 208.0, and calculate the atomic weight of ...

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

Thanks to its unique ionization source—Laser Ablation Laser Ionization (LALI)—and vacuum-based analysis, the Massbox can consistently detect and quantify low-mass elements like lithium, carbon, oxygen ...

Blink and you might miss it, but if you keep your eye on the monitors in professor Sebastian Will's lab, you'll catch a ...