An Australian man described as a "science nerd" may face jail time, after attempting to collect all the elements in the ...

John Sutton described his client as an “innocent collector” and “science nerd”, claiming Lidden “did not import or possess ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, the U.S. met this challenge by developing nuclear batteries known as radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and producing plutonium-238 (Pu-238) as their fuel, ...

The illustration below shows how a radioactive sample is decaying over time. From the start of timing it takes 2 days for the count to halve from 80 down to 40. It takes another two days for the ...

plant and forced thousands of nearby residents to leave their homes, much about the site's highly radioactive interior remains a mystery. The sample, the first to be retrieved from inside a ...