A study led by Associate Professor Kelton McMahon at University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography has found that food webs on tropical reefs are more fragile than we once thought.

Traditionally, Indigenous peoples almost universally viewed thoroughly putrefied, maggot-infested animal foods as highly ...

Researchers used stable isotope and proteomic analyses on medieval European skeletons to uncover the details of ancient diets ...

A California startup is serving up nuclear fusion with a side of alchemy. San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion announced it ...

Based on chemical analysis of Neanderthal remains, it seemed like they’d been feasting on as much meat as apex predators such ...

The Gulf of Maine—home to commercial fisheries for oysters, clams and mussels—has unexpectedly avoided an increase in ...

New stable isotope map of Angola helps archaeologists trace individual life histories across the African Diaspora UCSC researchers’ methods could provide significantly more detail and certainty in ...

The U.S. Stable Isotope Production and Research Center will enrich stable isotopes used for cancer treatments, heart disease treatments, space exploration and more.

A stable isotope will never spontaneously change into a different element, which is what happens to radioactive isotopes.

Toropov and colleagues have shown how the two ivories can be distinguished on the basis of stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope signatures (Front. Ecol. Evol. 2025, DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2025.1533703).