In the 1960s there was fear of nuclear war. However, on the home front, foods were produced containing radiation. These are some of the Baby Boomer foods that contained radiation.

In an unexpected twist on particle physics, MIT researchers have successfully turned a single molecule into a particle ...

When most people think about radioactivity, their minds jump to nuclear power plants, medical X-rays, or maybe that ominous ...

The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s ...

The RaF molecule is made of two atoms: radium and fluoride. Each with its own nucleus. The radium nucleus has a property called “octupole deformation”. “You can think of it as the nucleus itself ...

A team led by MIT used a simple molecule to peek inside a radium atom’s nucleus. In a new study, they watched electrons in radium monofluoride pick up a tiny energy change that betrays what is ...