Have teams use their charts to find their isotope's half-life. A half-life is a measure of the average lifetime of a radioactive substance, and specifies the time it takes for one-half of the ...

Scientists have developed a prototype nuclear battery using radiocarbon that could power small devices for decades without ...

Stable isotopes do not decay into other elements. In contrast, radioactive isotopes (e.g., 14C) are unstable and will decay into other elements. The less abundant stable isotope(s) of an element have ...

Researchers have discovered an "unexpected" accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The team hopes their discovery could serve as an ...

Australia's Open Pool Australian Lightwater (OPAL) research reactor has the potential to “make a real difference” in the effort to deal with the global shortage of radioactive isotopes used ...

An isotope emits gamma rays that easily pass through the body to a detector outside the body, for example a ‘gamma camera’. In this way, the radioactive isotope can be followed as it flows ...