Using the Chile-based ALMA telescope, the researchers examined the dynamics and chemistry of a central region.

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

Imagine a dusty scrapyard in 1987 Brazil, where a forgotten radiotherapy machine hides a glowing secret capable of turning ...

Marie Curie was a physicist, chemist and pioneer in the study of radiation. She discovered the elements polonium and radium ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will perform 49 close flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon, where radiation levels reach 5,400 milliSieverts per day — lethal within hours. Beneath its frozen crust may lie a ...

NASA finds carbon molecules in ancient Martian lake, and scientists admit it is difficult to explain them without life.

Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and californium. Understanding how these elements bond with other atoms (known as ...

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed new hybrid materials that challenge conventional thinking about how ...

Most nuclear energy is thermal. All that complex nuclear physics and chemistry serve merely to create steam that spins a turbine, the same as any combustion-based power plant does. But what if you ...

FLORISSANT, Mo. — Demolition will begin next week for six consecutive homes in a Florissant neighborhood after radioactive waste was found underneath their homes on Cades Cove Drive. The Formerly ...

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A new study shows that atoms are far from static before radiation-induced decay, instead roaming and reshaping themselves on ultrafast timescales. This hidden motion turns out to be key to ...