The moment nuclear material is produced, processed or purified, it sets off a hidden countdown, marked by the half-life of ...

Numerous scientific discoveries were made by accident. Sometimes, the findings even crossed into a different field other than the one scientists were exploring. The XENON collaboration is formed by an ...

In a new set of results, chemists have laid the foundation for a single-atom illumination strategy called barium tagging. Their achievement is the first known imaging of single atoms in a solid noble ...

In this lesson, students will simulate the randomness of decay in radioactive atoms and visualize the half-life of a sample radioactive element. This lesson can be completed in two (2) 45-minute class ...

Wanted: an all-rounder in chemistry and physics who has experience with research reactors, accelerators, and ion beams and who knows about industrial applications of radiation, including ...