Besides hyperfine splitting, isotope shifts of atomic electronic energy levels provide the most common access to nuclear properties 1. Typically, the dominating nuclear effects contributing to isotope ...

Carolyn Krause presents the second part of the three-part series on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's role in the discovery of elements in the periodic table. Many of them have been synthesized ...

The Periodic Table is a fascinating patchwork of our elemental framework… and we are often adding to it with short-lived elements of unpronounceable names… but what's the story with technetium? How ...