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

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

With undisguised pride, Los Alamos, N.M., the birthplace of the atomic bomb, announced on Oct. 2 the arrival of a new member ...

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and despite Utah’s low smoking rates, lung cancer is more prevalent than many residents are aware of.

About 87% of the Earth's internal heat comes from the radioactive decay of minerals such as uranium and thorium. These rocks, ...

Bananas, though radioactive due to potassium-40, don't pose health risks. The radiation from one banana is minimal compared ...

Granite countertops are durable and aesthetically pleasing, but do they also emit radiation? Here's what we know about this ...

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

Now is the time to banish low-level radioactive energy sources from facilities that house and conduct experiments with ...

The analyses of the largest study on ochre extraction in Africa also show the spread of ochre to nearby areas / publication ...

“Free neutrons are produced during radioactive decay in the reactor. These free neutrons can then be channelled into a neutron beam where they can be precisely measured.” One can measure how ...

Physicists began to refer to both “tau” and “theta” particles as the “kaon.” The fundamental force that causes radioactive decay—including the decay process that Fowler discovered—is called the weak ...