Glaciers tend to suppress the volume of eruptions from the volcanoes beneath them. But as glaciers retreat due to climate change, our findings suggest these volcanoes go on to erupt more frequently ...

Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth and one of the least studied within the periodic table, mostly ...

The water-cooled lithium-lead (WCLL) test blanket module (TBM) of ITER and the respective breeding blanket (BB) of DEMO need to be efficiently characterized from the point of view of hydrogen isotopes ...

Scientists use resin-filled columns to recover the isotope americium-241 (Am-241) from plutonium waste for commercial use.

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Scientists have developed tiny nanocrystal particles made up of isotopes of the elements lanthanum, vanadium, and oxygen for ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

A significant negative δ 238 U excursion (~0.4‰) starting just prior to the onset of the negative carbon isotope excursion within the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE) has been recorded, followed ...

Not that anyone asked, but uranium enrichment is certainly a newsworthy topic where a little science might be helpful. Here's ...

The growth rate of the atmospheric abundance of methane (CH 4) reached a record high of 15.4 ppb yr −1 between 2020 and 2022, but the mechanisms driving the accelerated CH 4 growth have so far been ...