The promise of turning base metals into gold has transfixed some of the greatest minds in history, from the ancient Egyptians ...

A Silicon Valley start-up is heralding in a new 'Golden age' after it claims to have solved a millennia-old alchemical mystery.

A research team led by Linda Zhang at Tohoku University has developed a novel metal-organic framework (MOF) that enables record-breaking separation of ...

In a surprising announcement, Marathon Fusion, an innovative startup from Silicon Valley, claims to have achieved the impossible: converting mercury into gold through the process of nuclear fusion. By ...

Two Los Alamos Laboratory scientists discovered Arthur Ruhlig’s major contributions to fusion physics, and they did so completely by accident.

The isotopes -- light (H2) and heavy (D2) hydrogen -- differ only in mass of nuclei -- protons in H2 and deuterons in D2. Everything else including the electronic structure and energies are identical.

There are lots of reactions that you can use: the one that we use has two isotopes of hydrogen that are called deuterium and tritium." Shown above is a JET interior with superimposed plasma.

By analyzing submarine volcanic glass from the Manus Basin, scientists found unexpected changes in hydrogen and boron isotopes from the deep mantle. They expected to see the "fingerprint" of seawater.

The article, “Isotope-dependent site occupation of hydrogen in epitaxial titanium hydride nanofilms,” was published in Nature Communications at DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53838-6 .

And there is a third isotope with a proton and two neutrons: tritium, three times as massive as hydrogen, which is produced in trace quantities by cosmic rays interacting with the atmosphere, but ...

The heaviest isotope of hydrogen ever has been detected at the RIKEN laboratory in Japan. The isotope contains six neutrons and one proton and is known as hydrogen-7. An international team of ...