Molecular isotopic engineering (MIE) is the directed stable-isotopic synthesis of chemical products for product authentication and security, as well as intellectual property protection. In tests ...

In 2020 wildfires destroyed approximately 30 per cent of the Pantanal, South America’s largest wetland spreading across Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. For the last 60 years, one of Central Africa’s ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the landscape. Mars is often portrayed as a dry, empty world, but the planet is ...

Photosynthesis leaves behind a unique calling card, a chemical signature that is spelled out with stable oxygen isotopes, according to a new study. The findings suggest isotopic signatures could exist ...

University of Wyoming geology Professor and National Geographic Explorer Ken Sims has published a new book on the application of isotopes to understanding earth system processes. “Isotopic Constraints ...

Where did the materials that make up Earth and moon come from--and when did they arrive? Most scientific models contend the Earth formed gradually by addition from an assortment of moon- to Mars-sized ...

Mars may look quiet from a distance, but up close it is anything but ...

A new analysis of Earth and moon rocks appears to unseat a leading theory of how the moon formed. Since the 1970s, scientists have hypothesized that the moon was created billions of years ago when a ...