“And you could hold that for its decay — 12-year half-life.” If the treated water were stored ... Buesseler said he sees a ...

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy has launched 11 times, all successfully, and is based on the Falcon 9 rocket rated to ferry people into ...

In a chilling Italian lab, scientists utilize extreme cold and ancient materials to challenge existing physics laws. Their ...

China’s historic farside sample-return mission is providing intriguing insights into why the Moon’s farside is so different ...

On to another concept: half-life. In the nuclear parlance, half-life is the period of time taken for a radioactive isotope to ...

In an underground lab in a mountainous region of Italy that contains the coldest temperatures known to exist in the universe, ...

Vladimir Putin's recent threats of nuclear weapon use are deeply concerning. A nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences, both short and long-term, including radiation-induced cancers. However, ...

Minerals containing radioactive elements are of special interest because these elements, called parents, decay at known rates to form stable elements, called daughters. By measuring the ratio of ...

A $340,000 National Science Foundation grant will support research led by Cal Poly physics Professor Thomas Gutierrez on neutrinos through the international CUPID (CUORE Upgrade with Particle ...

Isotopes are atoms of an element that have the same number of protons in their nuclei but a different number of neutrons. The ...

Our investigation begins at the Trinité Medical Center, less than 20 kilometers, or 12 miles, from the city of Kolwezi, in ...

Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from ...