Scientists Study the Apollo Mission Samples to Identify the Origins of the Moon; Are Delighted by The Results The moon has ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

IN a former letter to NATURE (January 20, p. 79) we announced the discovery of a new element with atomic number 72, for which the name hafnium was proposed. Evidence was given that this element is ...

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Rutherfordium, the 104th element on the periodic table ... As expected for a heavier molecule, hafnium chloride was found to be less volatile than zirconium chloride (that is, a lower enthalpy ...

January 2025/Kiel. Mangrove forests along the Amazon coast release significant amounts of trace elements such as neodymium and hafnium. These elements and their isotopic compositions can serve to ...

Relative amounts of uranium and lead as well as abundances of hafnium isotopes and the element lutetium provided radioactive decay clocks that record when the early moon’s global ocean of magma ...

More information: Antao Xu et al, The Amazonian mangrove systems accumulate and release dissolved neodymium and hafnium to the oceans, Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038 ...