A research team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is the first ever to observe a beta-delayed neutron emission ...

A carbon-14 isotope has one more neutron than carbon-13, for example. Some isotopes are stable and some are unstable. Unstable isotopes decay into other isotopes or elements through radioactive decay.

In January 2019, a seizure of 3.3 tons of ivory in Uganda turned up something surprising: markings on some of the tusks suggested that they may have been taken from a stockpile of ivory kept, it was ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are inconsistent with ...

Catching the drips: the FRIB Decay Station Initiator. (Courtesy: Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) The first scientific results from the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State ...

Peter Bender, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell will give a talk on “Seeing the Invisible: High-Resolution γ-Ray Spectroscopy of Rare ...

FERMI and his collaborators 1 detected two unstable isotopes of bromine characterized by half-periods of eighteen minutes and 4.2 hours. The nuclear transformations are probably expressed by the ...

Thunderstorms have a lot of overt indications of power, from the thunder and lightning to torrential rains and hail. But the full extent of their power wasn’t obvious until recent years, when we ...

The U.S. Department of Energy is investing an additional $527 million into a cutting-edge isotopes research facility at Michigan State University, where scientific breakthroughs are coming ever more ...

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