So many of our devices rely on batteries. However, they typically have a short lifespan, adding to the issue with waste ...

Students learning quantum mechanics are taught the Schrodinger equation and how to solve it to obtain a wave function. But a crucial step is skipped because it has puzzled scientists since the ...

In the quest for ultra-precise timekeeping, scientists have turned to nuclear clocks. Unlike optical atomic clocks—which rely ...

Some isotopes are stable, while others are radioactive and decay over time, emitting radiation. Carbon-14 is a radioactive isotope of carbon, meaning that it undergoes beta decay, releasing electrons.

For a price that starts at about $18 a day, Khoja Obi Garm offers its guests room, board, treatments with radon-infused water ...

Zimbabwe is working with the International Atomic Energy Agency and Russian investors to establish nuclear energy as part of ...

Just how long has the universe been around? Scientists estimate the universe is 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty ...

The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory was a toy lab set produced in 1950 and 1951 that allowed kids to create and watch ...

Diamond batteries promise an (almost) infinite life expectancy Researchers at the UK's University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority have developed the first battery made with diamond and ...

He believed that lead must be the final product of the radioactive decay of uranium and thorium. A few years later, in 1907, he reasoned that since he knew the rate at which uranium breaks down ...

The iSpace-Magna Petra agreement to start returning that isotope to Earth could be a small, first step that could spark a ...

Example nuclear reactions include radioactive decay, fission, the break-up of a nucleus, and fusion, the merging of nuclei. In systematic studies of radioactive isotopes, the so-called islands of ...