Neutron activation analysis is a method for the qualitative and quantitative determination of elements based on the measurement of characteristic radiation from radionuclides formed by irradiating ...

A new detector at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has successfully observed ...

with another neutron star or a black hole. Such events have been theorized to seed the universe with heavy elements like gold, platinum, and radioactive elements like uranium. Most scientists in the ...

reasoning that other heavy elements were undoubtedly created in the aftermath of this neutron star collision. "The matter expands so fast and gains in size so rapidly, to the extent where it takes ...

New method of observation shows the creation of heavy elements The collision of two neutron stars has created the smallest black hole yet observed. The dramatic, cosmic collision resulted in ...

The number of each row, or period, indicates the number of orbitals for the elements in that row, according to Los Alamos National Laboratory. (Atoms have protons and neutrons in their nucleus ...