A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.

Helium is considered a critical mineral that’s needed to help Canada compete in a high-tech economy, and industry players are ...

Scientists have built the first-ever thorium reactor. Thorium is both more easily accessible and less dangerous than ...

Abilene Christian University and Texas A&M are leading what could be a resurgence in nuclear power in Texas. The long-dormant ...

Although the Navajo Nation has reached an agreement with Energy Fuels Inc. on uranium transportation through tribal land, ...

Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. NASA via AP Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not ...

Bedford Metals is pleased to announce that it has submitted an exploration permit application to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy & Resources for the Phase 2 Summer 2025 field program at its wholly ...

A new report prompted officials to address the lack of radon testing in schools. Radon is the second leading cause of lung ...

Isotope analysis of limestone cave deposits indicates repeated humid periods in the Saharo-Arabian Desert over the past eight million years. The Saharo-Arabian Desert is one of the world’s largest ...

Energy Fuels began hauling uranium ore from the Pinyon Plain Mine to the White Mesa Uranium Mill. According to a 2024 ...

But uranium-lead dating is a relatively new technique that compares the uranium isotopes to the lead they decay into over a longer period. This can date a stalagmite over a much longer time ...