Erik Pollock, a geoscientist at the U of A, is the lab manager of the University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Lab and the Trace Element and Radiogenic Isotope Lab.

Scientists have discovered the elusive properties hidden within promethium, a rare earth element that has remained largely ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging ... with heavy elements and isotopes forged and then expelled out into space as the star is ripped ...

Based on accepted cosmological models, hydrogen and helium were the only elements in the earl. These coalesced to form the ...

Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like ...

When the first periodic table was formulated by Mendeleev ... We know this because even the longest-lived isotope of the element has a half-life that is too short in comparison with the age ...

Scientists have puzzled over the origin of elements heavier than iron since the 1950s. Recently, LSU astrophysicist Eric ...

Heavy actinides - elements at the bottom of the periodic table, after plutonium - are radioactive, rare and chemically ...

The origin of the elements that follow iron in the periodic table is one of the biggest mysteries in nuclear ... One scenario involves radioactive isotopes (that is, those with a few more neutrons ...

The key to producing the heaviest elements on the periodic table is known as the rapid neutron-capture ... with heavy elements and isotopes forged and then expelled out into space as the star is ...