The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

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Stable isotope analysis could offer a new tool in the fight against wildlife poaching by helping differentiate legal mammoth ...

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

A new tool to detect elephant tusks disguised as legal mammoth ivory has been deployed in the battle against poaching. Stable ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

Wildlife forensic experts have developed a new approach to distinguishing between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ...

The interplay between the chemical composition and the molecular structure of silicate melts was central to the evolution of the Earth's crust, mantle and core. This interplay also affects geochemical ...

This large water solubility has been explained by a hydrogarnet substitution mechanism (1Si (4+) & LRARR; 4H (+)) and/or the incorporation of interstitial molecular water. To investigate water ...

As a result, it was discovered that only the vibrational mode of H 2, and not D 2, exhibited a significant change, demonstrating a pronounced isotope-dependent effect -- that could not be captured ...

The extremely heavy hydrogen isotopes ⁶H – consisting of one proton and five neutrons – and ⁷H – with one more neutron – have the highest neutron-to-proton ratios known so far. They are unique systems ...

These isotopes have extra neutrons in the atomic nucleus and are therefore heavier than the much more abundant hydrogen (1H) and oxygen (16O) atoms.