For decades, deep space exploration has depended on a handful of obscure isotopes quietly heating small nuclear batteries on robotic probes. Now a different, even less familiar element is moving to ...
In 1977, two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched toward the unknown. Nearly fifty years later, they remain alive at the edge of interstellar space, still whispering faint signals back to ...
The UK's National Nuclear Laboratory and University of Leicester have generated usable electricity from the chemical element americium in what it believes to be a global first. The achievement is seen ...
Writing in Nature, Zhang et al. 1 provide a rare atomic-level glimpse of a notoriously dangerous radioactive element, americium (Am), in its highest oxidation state. The authors used a water-soluble ...
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