Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to ...

Uranium enrichment concentrates one specific type of the atom to create a substance that can generate massive amounts of ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

The gold standard for determining the age of ancient rocks is measuring the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium into lead in minerals known as zircons. But not all rocks contain zircons, so ...

New research analyzing isotopes from ancient African remains reveals how societies adapted strategies to survive major climate change.

Nuclear Reactor Construction Market Size, Share, Competitive Landscape and Trend Analysis Report WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES, July 2, 2025 / ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

The Company mined 638,700 pounds of uranium from its Pinyon Plain mine in Arizona during the 2nd quarter of 2025, cementing its place a ...

Uranium-235—so named because it has 235 total protons and neutrons—is the only uranium isotope suitable for making a bomb [1] (see Table 1). But since it’s chemically indistinguishable from the far ...