To understand the importance of neutrinoless double-beta decay, we have to go back more than a century, to the late 1800s, to understand what radioactive decay is in the first place.

This is why the news in Japan has focused on isotopes of iodine and cesium (iodine-131 and cesium-137), which fit this profile. The actual nuclear fuel, and some of the nastier isotopes associated ...

Bunsen and Kirchhoff discovered cesium/caesium spectroscopically in 1860 in mineral water from Durkheim. It is obtain from the minerals Lepidolite and Pollucite (2Cs 2 O.2Al 2 O 3.9SiO 2.H 2 O), a ...

The observation of neutrinoless double beta decay could have important implications for the study of matter and antimatter. In fact, it would confirm that neutrinos and their antiparticles (i.e ...

Researchers from South Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) developed the first functional ...

Now, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, there's one more to add to the list: radioactive cesium atoms leaching into the ocean as far as 60 ...

Uranium ore that miners dig up is relatively harmless. But it contains tiny amounts of a rare radioactive isotope, Uranium ...

To understand the importance of neutrinoless double-beta decay, we have to go back more than a century, to the late 1800s, to understand what radioactive decay is in the first place.