For 80 years Oak Ridge National Laboratory has produced isotopes that treat cancer and power deep space exploration.

SAN FRANCISCO — Nuclear science – and a host of other endeavors that involve the production, study and use of rare isotopes – is undergoing a quiet but dramatic revolution. That’s the conclusion of ...

In a world filled with trillions upon trillions of atoms, spotting a handful that barely exist sounds almost impossible. Atoms of argon-42 (⁴²Ar), one of the rarest isotopes in Earth’s atmosphere, ...

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 ...

Scientists have demonstrated that small changes in the isotopic content of thin semiconductor materials can influence their optical and electronic properties, possibly opening the way to new and ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of uranium that is the lightest ever known. The discovery could reveal more about a weird alpha particle that gets ejected from certain radioactive elements as ...

The CUBES-SIL lab has three magnetic sector, gas-source, isotope ratio mass spectrometers designed to measure the relative abundance of stable isotopes of light elements and molecules. These ...