One hundred years after “nuclear isomers” were first discovered, Philip Walker and Zsolt Podolyák pick five examples of these long-lived, excited nuclear states to show why they are so important in ...
Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best ...
Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — When University at Buffalo chemists analyzed samples of water, fish, and bird eggs, they weren’t surprised to find plenty of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). After all, ...
Physicists in Israel have used a modern version of the Stern-Gerlach experiment to separate out water molecules according to the relative spin of their constituent hydrogen atoms. This ability to ...
Isomers are compounds with the same molecular formulae but different structural formulae. They have the same number of each type of atom but may have different physical and chemical properties. This ...