Imagine a world where your electricity bill is as extinct as the dodo. A utopia where plugging in your devices doesn't induce ...

ThePrint Explorer looks at the significance of rare earths, how China rose to dominate the industry, and the US's efforts to ...

Though Marie Curie's discovery of radium broke barriers and advanced science, it wasn't all positive. In fact, it ultimately led to her undoing.

An international team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new method for analyzing actinides. The method provides unique insights into the electronic ...

Artist's concept of the signal (r.) occurring during measurement of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering in samples containing ...

an element moves to a different position in the periodic table when an alpha or beta ray is emitted. Next up, he formulated the concept of chemically non- separable radioactive elements.

ON bombarding uranium with neutrons, Fermi and collaborators 1 found that at least four radioactive substances ... uranium and the elements in the middle of the periodic system.

On 17 February 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev jotted down the symbols for the chemical elements, putting them in order according to their atomic weights and inventing the periodic table.

Radon is a monoatomic radioactive particle with an oxidation state of zero. On the periodic table of elements, the anatomic symbol for radon is Rn, its atomic number is 86, and its molecular weight is ...

Even more alarmingly, when Saharan dust blanketed Europe following a major event in March 2022, scientists discovered it contained radioactive elements, prompting an unexpected investigation. Only a ...

Nov. 11, 2024 — Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? Researchers report on experiments to come closer to an answer ...

The UK government has announced its decision to dispose of 140 tonnes of plutonium stored at the Sellafield site in Cumbria. The material, accumulated over decades as a by-product of nuclear fuel ...