“This work combined our expertise in laser spectroscopy, a method traditionally limited to radioactive isotopes of naturally ...

At the Suncor Oil Refinery in Commerce City, some air pollution is visible to the naked eye. But a new study found another unexpected, and invisible, contaminant: radioactivity.

Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? Researchers report on experiments to come closer to an answer. They gained insight ...

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

Doctors say it has reduced the size of the cancer by half. A new radioactive therapy has shrunk a man's deadly brain tumour by half, in what experts hope could be a breakthrough cancer treatment.

Ochre is a naturally occurring pigment made from iron-rich ... “We take small samples of ochre artifacts and safely make them radioactive by exposing them to neutrons inside the reactor core ...

The waste sent to Michigan is called technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material (TENORM). The EPA has warned that TENORM produced by oil and gas production presents risks for ...

Hub cap-sized hermit crabs eating coconuts containing caesium. A dome ‘coffin’ crammed with radioactive material in plastic bags. The Marshall Islands, a ring of coral reefs in the middle of ...

Radon is a colourless, odourless, radioactive gas that forms naturally when uranium, thorium or radium — radioactive metals — break down in rocks, soil and groundwater. Exposure comes from ...

While its name sounds complex and unfriendly, this naturally occurring zeolite has been involved in some critical applications, from water purification to the clean-up of radioactive contamination ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. A large number of clinical studies demonstrate that the ketogenic diet (KD) may be an ...

A team of scientists at the University of Illinois discovered naturally occurring DNA-protein hybrid molecules last month, a breakthrough that could revolutionize genome editing (artificially altering ...