An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

Radioactive isotopes are nuclides whose nuclei are unstable and radioactive. Radioactive isotopes undergo radioactive decay and emit gamma rays and sub-atomic particles. If all isotopes of an element ...

Some isotopes are stable, while others are radioactive and decay over time, emitting radiation. Carbon-14 is a radioactive isotope of carbon, meaning that it undergoes beta decay, releasing electrons.

Many unstable isotopes give off radioactive energy as they decay. And science and industry have figured out how to put that to use. An isotope of the element fluorine, known as Fluorine-18, is ...

For any substantial sample of a radioactive isotope, half the atoms will decay in a period known as that isotope’s half-life. If you suitably store a kilogram of carbon-14, 5,700 years later ...

IN the course of investigations with radioactive isotopes in this Department, anomalous rates of decay have been observed with some isotopes in particular chemical forms. The escape of iodine-131 ...

As per the one behind this idea, 30 kilos (66 pounds) of radioisotope could be spread over an area of 250 square meters (2,690 square feet), which should allow a ship to reach a top speed of ...

Half-life curve showing radioactive decay. (Image credit: Nandalal Sarkar) Niwase is the lead author of a study on the new uranium isotope, which was published March 31 in the journal Physical ...