Observations from high-flying aircraft revealed that thunderclouds act as natural particle accelerators, emitting energetic ...

This program simulates radioactive decay using physical dice rolls. It models how unstable (parent) isotopes decay into stable (daughter) isotopes over time by using randomized dice behavior. The ...

To explore these questions, a few superheavy nuclei were picked and their cluster decay process was studied by calculating the reaction energies (Q-values) of the disintegrating nucleus [15]. The ...

Authorities in Ohio plan to test the groundwater supply across a village near a former weapons plant after a newspaper ...

A collaboration of US-based researchers has turned to the PROSPECT-I detector at ORNL in search of the elusive sterile ...

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.

The gas is invisible and odorless, and can cause lung cancer after becoming trapped in homes and buildings. But there are ...

New research using moon rocks from the Apollo missions has revealed hidden dangers facing future astronauts. The study, ...

A report about the decay and half-life of different radioactive elements. It is impossible to predict when any one atom will decay but by looking at a number of atoms an average rate of decay can ...

Taking a soak in a thermal spa might seem a much-needed break, worlds away from the relentless election campaigning, but they ...

The EPA says radon should be mitigated if air quality tests show four picocuries — a unit of radioactive decay — per liter, and people should start considering mitigation at two picocuries.

Every second, around 100 billion neutrinos pass through each square centimeter of your body. They're produced in multiple ...