Researchers have created an extraordinarily light version, or isotope, of magnesium. In collaboration with an international team of researchers, Michigan State University has helped create the world's ...

In collaboration with an international team of researchers, Michigan State University has helped create the world’s lightest version, or isotope, of magnesium to date. Forged at the National ...

Attempting to understand how heavy elements are formed inside stars and supernovas, Michigan scientists have created three unusually heavy isotopes of magnesium and aluminum, including one that has ...

Magnesium isotope geochemistry has emerged as a fundamental tool for decoding the complex pathways of elemental cycling in marine environments. The isotopic composition of magnesium (commonly reported ...

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This instrumentation at Japan's Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory in Wako, Japan, was used in an experiment to create an exotic magnesium isotope. Credit: RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based ...

An international team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has reproduced an exotic form of magnesium, known as magnesium-40, and ...