Plutonium stands as one of the most dangerous and toxic elements ever created by humanity. This video explores the science ...

Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

Marie Curie worked here from 1914 until 1934, the year of her death, handling radioactive elements including radium, which she and her husband Pierre Curie had discovered in 1898. For most of her ...

For nearly five decades, more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped in the icy depths of the northeast ...

The discovery of a metal-rich star packed with both light and heavy elements hints at exotic stellar explosions and the role ...

Uranium ore that miners dig up is relatively harmless. But it contains tiny amounts of a rare radioactive isotope, Uranium ...

THE appearance of new agents that carry with them a potential menace to the health and security of the public is bound to be accompanied by a very understandable attitude of fear. The highly ...

Massive stars create heavy elements from lighter ones through fusion, eventually forging an iron core over millions of years.

Argonne and Fermilab have receive $3.2M from ARPA-E to develop accelerator tech for nuclear waste transmutation.

Opera Holland Park has never shied away from audacious programming, and with Jonathan Dove’s Itch, it plunges boldly into ...

The story of the birth and growth of nuclear science is rebalanced in Destroyer of Worlds, which gives due prominence to the ...