An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...

Radioactive isotopes are typically used by researchers ... such as cosmogenic beryllium-10." The isotope's half-life is a whopping 1.4 million years, and breaks down into boron, allowing ...

In the previous months, she had honed a chemical separation technique for extracting a sizable sample of radioactive ... measuring the half-life of samarium-146. This long-lived isotope and ...

Australia's Open Pool Australian Lightwater (OPAL) research reactor has the potential to “make a real difference” in the effort to deal with the global shortage of radioactive isotopes used ...

As another plus, this carbon-14 is derived from graphite blocks, which are a byproduct of nuclear fission reactors. So, not ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä’s Accelerator Laboratory have created radioactive ... The generated isotopes are difficult to examine because of their short half-life.

Radioactive spike found in Pacific seabed samples. It could be from space radiation or changes in ocean currents 10 million ...

Tantalum is one of the rarest elements and has multiple stable isotopes. The least abundant ... required sensitivity to reach the predicted half-lives. The experiment has produced initial data ...

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team has discovered an unexpected ...

An unknown 'bump' on a scientist's screen In this work, researchers determined two-neutron separation energies of the lanthanum isotopes and discovered a strong, local increase, a "bump," in the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed a Russian drone equipped with a 'high-explosive warhead' struck the nuclear ...