Known as “islands of inversion,” these regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...

U.S. researchers confirmed helium-3 beneath the ground in Minnesota, where Pulsar Helium found rare concentrations with ...

BEIJING -- Chinese researchers have synthesized two new nucleus isotopes that contain 84 neutrons and 82 neutrons, according to a recent research article published in the journal Physical Review ...

What’s going on with this silent threat that can stealthily damage your body in ways that can take years to reveal themselves ...

Drilling at the Topaz Project near Babbitt detected helium-3 around 14.5 ppb—comparable to Apollo lunar samples—within deep ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected breakdown of nuclear order in a remarkably symmetric atom, challenging long-standing ...

More common than gold, uranium is abundant on Earth. But less than one percent of the naturally occurring element is useful for nuclear power. Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a ...

Scientists have long believed that the Moon was formed by a massive object crashing into the Earth billions of years ago and sending chunks hurtling into space that ultimately coalesced. But what was ...

Schematic representation of the 64Cu production cycle, including the fast and easy synthesis of the target material tBu-CuPc and the setup of the extraction process. Credit: DOI: 10.1039/D5DT02046H In ...

Mirror magic: The "cores" of the exotic nuclei oxygen-22 and silicon-22 both resemble that of oxygen-16, with eight protons and eight neutrons. The neutron-rich oxygen isotope contains an additional ...

Currently, more than 3,300 nuclides are known, yet fewer than 300 are stable and exist naturally. The remainder are unstable nuclides that undergo radioactive decay. Common decay modes, such as α ...