The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

It comes to us from [Science Shack] and uses radioactive decay to generate truly random numbers, as opposed to the pseudorandom number generators baked into most microcontrollers. The design is ...

A research team in China has held atoms in a state of quantum superposition for 23 minutes, suggesting tantalizing new ...

Have you ever wondered how long it took our sun to form in its stellar nursery? An international collaboration of scientists ...

However, if you don’t have one, you can look for yellowed glass. Radioactive decay could also cause hot spots on digital cameras. In the consumer market, it doesn’t look like radioactive ...

Radioactive decay is a spontaneous and random process. A block of radioactive material will contain many trillions of nuclei and not all nuclei are likely to decay at the same time so it is ...

An curved arrow pointing right. At the turn of the 20th century, people didn't know or understand the dangers of radioactive decay. To them, radioactivity was a new, exotic material that some of ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...

The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a former base for atomic bomb testing, has lead to a cluster of health issues.

University of Liverpool researchers are part of an international research collaboration that has shed light on what happens ...

It also means that the process of radioactive decay cannot be speeded up or slowed down by any physical changes such as a change of temperature or pressure. A random process means that scientists ...