Radioactive decay is the strange and almost mystical ability for one element to naturally and spontaneously transmute into another. In the process, those elements tend to emit deadly forms of ...

Researchers refute the assumption that the decay rate of some radioactive nuclides depends on the distance between the Earth and the Sun. PTB researchers refute the assumption that the decay rate of ...

The discovery of radioactivity allowed scientists to develop new methods of determining Earth's age, with astonishing results. Our planet is far older than people had thought! Students can understand ...

For the first time, researchers have directly observed an exotic type of radioactive decay called two-neutrino double electron capture. The decay, seen in xenon-124 atoms, happens so sparingly that it ...

Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best ...

Solar effect: do neutrinos from the Sun affect beta decay on Earth? (Courtesy: NASA/SDO) Further evidence that solar neutrinos affect radioactive decay rates on Earth has been put forth by a trio of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Workers at a nuclear-waste site in Washington state were recently told to hunker down in place ...

Robert Chilcott receives funding from the US Biomedical Advanced Research Development Authority. A man and a woman were found unconscious in Wiltshire, England, on July, after having been exposed to ...