Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that can track chemical changes in molten salt in real ...

Elements are defined by the number of protons in their nucleus, with hydrogen having one, helium having two, and uranium having 92 protons, for example. The number of neutrons can vary ...

A recent study of data from multiple missions shows the Red Planet may get its name from an iron mineral that formed when ...

LIBS plasma of molten salt aerosols is formed from a sparging salt vessel. Credit: Zechariah Kitzhaber/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of ...

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) are nuclear fission reactors in which either the fuel and/or the coolant is a molten salt. Molten salt is salt which liquifies at elevated temperatures and can store ...

By far the most common is helium-4, with a nucleus containing two protons and two neutrons. Helium-4 accounts ... Helium isn't the only element with a primordial isotope, either; hydrogen, the ...

Such questions exercised physicists greatly in the decades after Dmitri Mendeleev introduced his periodic table of the chemical elements in ... emitted and absorbed by hydrogen atoms.

A team of researchers in the USA has come up with a revolutionary method capable of tracking chemical changes in molten salts ...