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Popular Mechanics December 29, 2008 Jeremy Jacquot |
3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology.  |
Chemistry World October 24, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
Drip Line Slips Away Researchers have squeezed 29 neutrons into an atom of aluminum, bringing into doubt current theories which predicted that it would be too unstable to exist.  |
Chemistry World February 10, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Inching towards the island of stability An international team of researchers has for the first time directly measured the mass of an element heavier than uranium.  |
Chemistry World August 10, 2012 Nina Notman |
Tweaked weighing scales help map the island of stability The mass of the heavy element lawrencium has been measured directly for the first time by German scientists.  |
Science News August 31, 2002 |
TimeLine: August 27, 1932 Russians dedicate world's largest power plant... New theory explains radioactive disintegration... New isotopes predicted with neutrons as "bricks"  |
Wired January 18, 2008 Miyoko Ohtake |
Chemist Spins His Cyclotron to Create Impossibly Heavy Metals New research allows mutations of metal elements to include more atoms.  |
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Philip Ball |
We choose to go to the muon Chemists Mohammad Goli and Shant Shahbazian posit two new light elements. They are muonium (Mu), in which an electron orbits a positively charged muon ( +), and muonic helium (He ), in which an electron orbits a 'nucleus' consisting of an alpha particle and a negative muon.  |
Science News October 19, 2002 |
TimeLine: October 15, 1932 The saber-tooth strikes... Dangers of dust in industry described at safety congress... Scientist directs huge magnet in attack to smash atom...  |
Chemistry World November 21, 2013 Mark Peplow |
A century of isotopes Glasgow will celebrate 'isotope day' on 4 December, 100 years after Frederick Soddy coined the word 'isotope' in Nature.  |
Science News March 16, 2002 |
TimeLine: March 12, 1932 Scientists unearth new portrait of King Tut's girl-wife... Tapping of the atom's energy achieved in new experiment... Scientists learning secret of how plants manufacture food...  |
Chemistry World September 30, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Element 114 confirmed US scientists have confirmed the discovery of element number 114, first made over a decade ago by a team in Russia.  |
National Defense December 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Advancing Hidden Nuclear Material Detection On any given day, ships and trucks deliver cargo containers filled with tons of imported goods. Homeland security officials have long warned that terrorists may use them to smuggle nuclear materials into the United States.  |
Science News August 28, 2004 |
Oklahoma's Mound Builders Wore Fancy Stone Earrings Flashback to 1934: Stone earplugs from a Native American jeweler in Oklahoma... Bathysphere sets a new deep-sea record... Gamma rays split hydrogen atoms...  |
Chemistry World October 17, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Heaviest Element Awaits Confirmation A team of Russian and American scientists has claimed the discovery of element 118, the newest and heaviest addition to the periodic table.  |
Science News April 14, 2007 |
Timeline: From the April 10, 1937, Issue Eggs of Brook Trout Have Beauty of Pearls... New Clue to Atom's Heart From Artificial Element...  |
Science News July 30, 2005 |
From the July 27, 1935, Issue "Geometry" of Bees is Not Result of Planning... Man-Made Gamma Rays Six Times as Piercing as Nature's... Electrical Device Aids in Measuring Speeds of Cars...  |
Science News April 29, 2006 |
From the April 25, 1936, Issue War Tower in Bible Was "Old-Fashioned" Even Then... Chemists Debate Value of Alcohol Blend for Car Fuel... Atoms and Cosmic Rays Yield New Science Knowledge...  |
Science News February 25, 2006 |
From the February 22, 1936, issue Miracles of unlikeness... Matter in cores of atoms found to be closely packed...  |
This Old House Keith Pandolfi |
Do Granite Countertops Emit Radon? We separate the myth from the fact, and tell you what to do if you're concerned  |
Science News October 4, 2003 |
TimeLine: September 30, 1933 First glimpses of a new world... Most intelligent college men choose most intelligent mates... High-voltage neutrons may be most effective atom splitters  |
Wired November 2002 Steven Johnson |
Stopping Loose Nukes Prevention is a game of odds, not certainty. Is an "atomic wall" of sophisticated sensors the answer to protecting population centers from terrorist attack by bioweapon or dirty bomb?  |
Technology Research News May 4, 2005 |
Noisy Snapshots Show Quantum Weirdness Researchers have devised a relatively simple way to detect a pair of entangled, or linked atoms. The detection ability advances quantum computer and quantum communications research.  |
Geotimes May 2006 Avner Vengosh |
Rooting Out Radioactive Groundwater Given the continuous degradation of the quality of groundwater in many aquifers worldwide, and the increasing demand for using alternative water resources, the radioactivity factor may be more important than is realized.  |