The most radioactive elements found on Earth include Polonium, Radium, and Radon. Learn why elements with short half-lives, ...
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The amount of long-lived radioactive elements incorporated into a rocky planet as it forms may be a crucial factor in determining its future habitability, according to a new study by an ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Xcel Energy says it has fixed the pipe leak at its nuclear power plant in Monticello and will reopen it soon. Last fall, at least 400,000 gallons of water containing radioactive ...
The nuclear accident in Fukushima remains etched into people's memories. It was a catastrophe that caused huge amounts of radioactively contaminated water to be released, which the operators of the ...
Scientists have revealed key properties of radioactive promethium, a rare earth element with poorly understood applications, using a groundbreaking new method. When you purchase through links on our ...
“Probably the most useful tool for research since the discovery of the microscope” was described in detail last week by Dr. Joseph G. Hamilton of the University of California. The tool he referred to ...
Bacteria can use certain radioactive elements to sustain their metabolism. A team led by LMU chemist Lena Daumann has demonstrated for the first time that bacteria can use certain radioactive elements ...
Since element 99 -- einsteinium -- was discovered in 1952 from the debris of the first hydrogen bomb, scientists have performed very few experiments with it because it is so hard to create and is ...
HELENA — Radioactive elements have been detected in all of the 128 residential wells that were tested in a recent seven-county study in south-central Montana, with 49 wells -- 29 percent of those ...
GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — The Food and Drug Administration issued two recalls for shrimp exposed to a cancer-causing element. The FDA says an investigation is underway after it found ...