Two decades in the making, a new flagship facility for nuclear physics opened on May 2, and scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have a hand in 10 of its first 34 ...

Radioactive potassium, common enough on Earth to make potassium-rich bananas one of the “hottest” foods around, appears also to be a substantial source of heat in the Earth’s core, according to recent ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Sean Liddick, Associate Professor of Chemistry, ...

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