These findings confirmed that atomic nuclei can decay by losing individual protons, not just clusters like alpha particles.

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British researchers have developed diamond batteries that use carbon-14 to generate microwatts' worth of power for up to ...

Researchers from South Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) developed the first functional ...

Uranium ore that miners dig up is relatively harmless. But it contains tiny amounts of a rare radioactive isotope, Uranium ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their ...

Nowhere is truly ‘safe’ from fallout and other consequences like contamination of food and water supplies and prolonged ...

On June 9, four days before Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic ...

For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general ...

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