Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time, providing a new path toward better understanding the chemical evolution ...

Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In doing so, they consider several factors such as ocean temperature and ice ...

The strongest force in the Universe is the one that holds together the protons and neutrons in an atom’s nucleus. To unlock how elements are forged, the physics of neutron stars and more, scientists ...

The neutron-rich oxygen isotopes oxygen-27 and oxygen-28 exist as very short-lived resonances, report scientists based on the first observation of their decay into oxygen-24 and three and four ...

Oxygen isotope geochemistry examines the natural abundance variations of stable oxygen isotopes—principally 16O, 17O and 18O—in minerals, rocks and fluids across Earth’s crust, lithospheric mantle and ...

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Scientists at The University of New Mexico have found that the Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen as previously thought according to a new study released ...

A “magic number” of physics might not be so magic after all. Using a powerful particle accelerator, researchers have spotted an elusive variant of oxygen for the first time. The isotope, oxygen-28, ...

image: Rare isotope oxygen-28 has been determined to be “barely unbound” by experiments led by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and by computer simulations conducted at ORNL. The ...

Going with the flow: artist’s impression of the preferential flow of water molecules containing oxygen-17 into a human cell. (Courtesy: PNAS) The effect that nuclear spins have on certain biological ...

At the start of 2018, Cape Town became the world’s first major city to face the prospect of completely running out of fresh water. A succession of droughts attributed to climate change had brought the ...