A Power Source Like No Other Imagine a battery that doesn’t need replacing for thousands of years. That’s not science fiction ...

In some designs, the radioactive core is stored separately and inserted into the bomb only when needed; in other designs, intricate “fail-safe” mechanisms are used to prevent accidental ...

zirconium shell of the reactor’s fiercely radioactive core. This was no work for amateurs or bunglers. To gain access to the heavily shielded core vessel, high-density concrete slabs first had ...

While diamonds are often regarded as one of the hardest materials in existence, these hard gems, more specifically radioactive diamonds, could be the basis for a next-generation battery. The core ...

Once bound, they’re internalized by these cells and deliver their radioactive freight directly to the genetic core of the tumor cells. (Bander cowrote an article discussing this and other PSMA ...

RADIOACTIVE soil from Fukushima will be used outside Japan’s government buildings in a bid to persuade the country that the soil is safe. Japan’s government revealed the bold move on ...

The BV100 harnesses energy from the radioactive decay of its nickel-63 core. The two-micron thick core, sandwiched between two 10-micron thick diamond semiconductors, efficiently converts the ...