We don't want to alarm you, but those bananas in your kitchen — they're radioactive. Before you don a hazmat suit, read the ...

Chernobyl's exclusion zone remains contaminated, its protective structure drone-struck and failing, and experts say the ...

The detection and study of isotopes, atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons, could expand the ...

Expert Nikolay Kovalev added that by 2056, plutonium-241 will account only for 3.3% of the amount released into the environment, and its prevalence will decrease ...

Hair oil spiked with radioactive elements seems like an obviously bad idea to us now. But in the decades right after ...

In Lower Alloways Creek, the PSEG Salem Nuclear Power Plant is making Cobalt-60, a vital isotope for sterilizing medical ...

The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...

The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...

New measurements are helping scientists predict how undiscovered elements might behave and how far the periodic table can ...

By directing pulses of laser light at atoms, researchers can study how radioactive elements decay in a matter of seconds. The ...

Every atom is a coiled source of power. But some atoms pack more punch than others. The radioactive elements fueling nuclear reactors can be coaxed into generating so much power that in the mid-1950s ...

This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser, CC BY Billions of light years away in a remote part of ...