Asteroids probably ferried water to an infant Earth (SN: 5/16/15, p. 18), but they weren’t responsible for our planet’s entire chemical inventory. Comets might have trucked in noble gases and much of ...

Scientists have succeeded in the stabilization and direct imaging of small clusters of noble gas atoms at room temperature. This achievement opens up exciting possibilities for fundamental research in ...

Sir William Ramsay was one of the worlds leading scientists at the end of the 19th century, and in a spectacular period of research between 1894 and 1898, he discovered five new elements. These were ...

The IAEA invites research organizations to join its new Coordinated Research Project (CRP) focussed on the combined use of environmental water, gaseous and pollutant isotope tracers to better ...