Radon enters homes through cracks and openings in the foundation, particularly in basements and lower levels.

The CBC’s Clare Mackenzie visited the Research Productivity Council in Fredericton to find out more about radon: what it is, ...

In 2012, about seven per cent of homes were found to have dangerous quantities of the gas. Now that figure is 17.8 per cent, ...

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Radon is a radioactive gas found in nearly every Canadian home. A new research study is putting a renewed spotlight on the ...

Radon gas is odorless, colorless and tasteless. It’s not humanmade; it’s naturally occurring. It seeps up from the ground and ...

Radon is a radioactive gas found in nearly every Canadian home. A new research study is putting a renewed spotlight on the invisible, odourless element that is the second-leading cause of lung ...

Radon is a colourless, odourless and radioactive gas and the second-largest contributor to lung cancer worldwide. It's produced when uranium, a common element in Canadian soil and rock ...

“Architectural design has always been a big passion of mine – I even loved drawing at school – and I enjoy working out how ...

as closed-shell elements remained undiscovered until Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsey isolated argon in 1894. Remarkably, Ramsey then went on to isolate helium (1895) and radon (1908) and ...