Basics of Chemistry is a new miniseries from the American Chemical Society about the basics of Chemistry. In this episode we're talking isotopes, what are they and why are they important? Head on over ...

When researchers want to uncover what atoms make up a material, they turn to a number of tried-and-true spectroscopy methods. Spectroscopy works by shining a specific type of light onto a substance ...

Ernest Rutherford visited Stockholm in December 1908 to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his “investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive ...

The past October marked an exciting time for those in the field of isotopic science. Two brand new approaches to isolate and enrich light elements have been reported. Although a variety of elements ...

A fossil sits on top of a mound of rocky ground. An excavating tool is on the ground next to it. A dinosaur bone sits on top of a spire of rock exposed by erosion in the Dinosaur Park Formation in ...