A research team successfully developed a solar-powered artificial plant device and rapidly purified soil contaminated with ...

The innovative device, which mimics a plant’s natural transpiration process, reduced cesium concentration in soil by over 95% in just 20 days. This offers a groundbreaking solution for cleaning up ...

There was a recent recall of so-called ‘radioactive shrimp’ that were potentially contaminated with cesium-137 (Cs-137). But ...

Super-cooling radioactive atoms could create a laser-like neutrino beam, potentially opening a new avenue for studying these elusive particles and even enabling novel forms of communication. Every ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

LOS ANGELES - Scientists are finding traces of radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing during the 1950s and 1960s in honey produced in the United States today. According to a study published on ...

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Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

Radioactive materials are vital for medicine, agriculture and for nuclear energy - but the challenge is to ensure that the 20 ...

(Reuters) - The passage of time has sharply reduced radiation from some elements with a short half-life at Japan's quake-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant but others will stay radioactive almost ...