When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Irene Curie was born in Paris, France, in 1897. In an unusual schooling setup, Irene was one of a group of children taught by ...

The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the ...

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have ...

Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Plants in the bean family and other closely related families evolved a symbiotic relationship with bacteria ...

Can you imagine falling 10,000 meters (33,000 ft) from a plane, being trapped underwater for days or surviving a massive radioactive discharge? All this seems like a death sentence, but today you’re ...

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...

Piefer’s 50-year forecast seems a long way off, but progress shown by SHINE and NorthStar means the future is here in the sense that isotopes produced by both companies are already treating patients ...

Baryons are the class of subatomic particles that includes protons and neutrons ... specifically the number of baryons, is tied to the abundance of different elements. Models like Lambda-CDM predict ...