For decades, scientists have relied on a chemical fingerprint inside water molecules to determine where plants get their ...

It is also used to generate other radioisotopes that have potential uses in cancer therapies. ORNL produces actinium-227 ...

The strategic importance to U.S. success of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s leadership in researching, producing and distributing stable isotopes and radioisotopes will be explained to Friends of ORNL ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

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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 ...

A new study uses carbon isotope science to show that marked tusks in a seized ivory shipment were more than 30 years old and likely had found their way from a guarded government stockpile into the ...

Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to decimate elephant populations. An international ban exists on the ivory trade, and ...

On a recent Saturday morning at the Savannah River Site Museum, a group of Scouts leaned over tables scattered with Geiger ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At Isotopes Park Saturday night, people came in to see baseball, but they also walked away with a bit of a science lesson. While the Isotopes went hit for hit with the Sugar Land ...

Surprisingly, changing isotope masses of molybdenum in a single layer of semiconductor molybdenum disulfide was found to shift the color of light emitted when the layer was illuminated. The study ...