Our readers explain why burning our planet's naturally occurring hydrogen won't deplete levels of atmospheric oxygen – there ...

The origin of lithium (Li), the third element of the periodic table, has long been shrouded in mystery. This element, ...

Scientists are using isotopes to answer a surprising variety of questions about the world, according to University of ...

Scientists are using isotopes to answer a surprising variety of questions about the world, according to University of Cincinnati Professor Brooke ...

Breathe easy, for now. Scientists say our breathable air won't last forever. A new NASA-supported study warns that Earth's ...

A new equation, developed using data from an IAEA nutrition database, is helping researchers assess the accuracy of ...

Scientists have detected oxygen in a galaxy so distant that its light has traveled 13.4 billion years to reach Earth, shedding new light on the universe’s infancy. This groundbreaking discovery was ...

The team also took a suite of measurements for three oxygen isotopes in the geode minerals. These findings supported the crystallization temperatures they had estimated. The relative amounts of ...

Some key dates (all at Isotopes Park unless noted): —First game (road): March 28 at Sacramento (the earliest regular season game in team history) —Home opener: April 1 vs. Salt Lake —"Quatro ...

The Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation (GNIP) is a worldwide isotope monitoring network of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in precipitation, initiated in 1960 by the International Atomic Energy ...

what even is an isotope? The nucleus of an atom is made up of protons and (aside from most hydrogen) neutrons. The number of protons defines what element it is: 8 for oxygen, 26 for iron ...

Using a powerful particle accelerator, researchers have spotted an elusive variant of oxygen for the first time. The isotope, oxygen-28, was predicted to be stable thanks to its eight protons and ...