When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more ...

The element radium can be found in extremely tiny amounts in the Earth’s crust and oceans, and in its pure form it is a soft silvery metal. To an untrained eye, a small piece of radium may look like a ...

For decades, a massive Cold War-era plant created weapons next to the small northwest Ohio village of Luckey. Residents of the rural community have long wondered how the former toxic plant might still ...

In August, the Food and Drug Administration issued an unusual warning: Don’t eat certain lots of frozen shrimp sold at Walmart because they might be radioactive. It didn’t take long for the list of ...

An illustration titled 'What Radioactivity Is', with six panels' reading (top) 'Water in pond is 'stable,' it expends no energy,' water can be carried up-hill and its energy level raised,' 'as it runs ...

Every year, millions of shipments of radioactive material are transported by land, air and sea. These materials are crucial for medicine, industry, research, agriculture and energy production. Because ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would ...

In early July, a wasp nest with a radiation level 10 times what is allowed by federal regulations was found inside the grounds of a sprawling Cold War-era nuclear site in South Carolina that today ...