Like everything we see in the world, isotopes are a type of atom, the smallest unit of matter that retains all the chemical properties of an element. Isotopes are forms of a chemical element with ...

Göttingen University researchers analysed oxygen isotopes from corals, like this Acropora coral, to expand the uses of the “triple oxygen isotope” method and help measure temperatures from the past ...

Australia is facing possibly its worst ever shortage of medical isotopes, meaning 10,000 people or more may miss out on vital diagnostic scans. The isotope molybdenum-99 is crucial to the diagnosis of ...