Lee Sobotka News Today

Physicists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis are helping to shape the theoretical framework behind exciting new experiments at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

Actor Troy Bronson says he’s been amazed by Joseph W. Kennedy’s life

With five more protons than should be stable, the newly discovered nitrogen-9 isotope sits right on the borderline of physical possibility.

The Center for Excellence in Nuclear Training And University-based Research (CENTAUR) has been selected to receive its second five-year award.

A new trove of records shows how federal officials wrote off potential risks near Coldwater Creek as “slight,” “minimal” or “low-level”

Conflicting reports of contamination have worried residents of Florissant, a community that continues to suffer from the legacy of the Manhattan Project.

The Army Corps of Engineers says its testing shows Jana Elementary School is radiologically safe in three new reports.

Fear and anxiety are at a new high after a study found “unacceptable levels” of radioactive waste at an elementary school in the Hazelwood school district.

A new isotope of magnesium — magnesium-18 — was discovered by a team that includes Robert Charity, research professor of chemistry, and Lee Sobotka, professor of chemistry and of physics, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, as reported in the journal Physical Review Letters.