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

Chernobyl's Elephant's Foot still sits inside the damaged reactor as a highly radioactive corium mass. Its weakening but ...

A recent experiment by Double M Innovations shows how a simple setup can turn ...

Researchers in the United States have proposed a completely new kind of laser—one that ...

Geoscientists have long relied on different forms of lead to understand Earth's geological history and how it was created ...

Among the many points of disagreement between Iran and the U.S. during the current conflict is the fate of Tehran’s highly ...

With NASA’s Artemis II—the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years—successfully completed, attention is now turning to what’s ...

Nuclear battery from NRD LLC promises 100-year lifespan using Nickel-63 decay, but delivers only nanowatts for sensors, not consumer devices.

There are only 14 helium refineries worldwide, and helium supply was already rapidly shrinking before the current ...

Researchers say the ancestral Colorado River formed an ancient lake in northern Arizona roughly 6.6 million years ago, which ...

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...