This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would obliterate any other living thing. Here’s what this means for science ...

For now at least, fears about an unstoppable disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant have calmed a bit. But the crisis has clearly entered a second phase — tainted food and water. Over the ...

Seventh in a series about the gas industry’s radioactive waste. When John Quigley became the secretary of the Pennsylvania ...

Introduction to Radioactivity Lesson Overview In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive ...

A popular New Mexico hiking trail near a major US atomic weapons facility is allegedly contaminated with radioactive waste comparable to the ruins of Chernobyl, but the government denies there’s any ...

The nuclei of certain atoms are stable and under ordinary circumstances, stable nuclei do not undergo change. The nuclei of other atoms are unstable. These nuclei undergo change spontaneously, that is ...

LUCKEY, Ohio — Authorities in Ohio plan to test the groundwater supply across a village near a former weapons plant after a newspaper investigation published Friday found high levels of radioactivity ...

LUCKEY, Ohio (AP) — Authorities in Ohio plan to test the groundwater supply across a village near a former weapons plant after a newspaper investigation published Friday found high levels of ...

Early afternoon local time on Thursday, after years of questions and criticisms directed at the plan, Japan has begun the controversial release into the Pacific Ocean of water previously used to cool ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. “What is radium and why is it dangerous?” – ...

There are many factors to consider when saying “radioactivity is hazardous.” Here is an attempt to summarize them in five points. Radiation is not an age-old reality; in fact, the discovery of ...