A new Maori Queen was anointed Thursday (Sept 5), taking on the role at a time when New Zealand is facing some of the biggest ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...

Traces of radioactive Cesium-137, first released during Oppenheimer's 1945 Trinity test, have been detected near Russia’s ...

Analysis of lunar samples reveals that the Moon experienced volcanic activity until 120 million years ago, much later than ...

China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.

WARSAW, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Polish authorities are investigating potentially radioactive substances found in around 50 ...

In medical applications that involve using radioactive sources, efforts are made to ensure that irradiation does not cause any long-term effects. This is done by considering: If the half-life ...

Swedish mushroom foragers have been asked to aid researchers in their search to find out how much radioactive fallout remains in the country nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion.

But even so, saying an area is radioactive may conjure up images of things you find in a sci-fi films including green glowing men and the odd deformed animal similar to The Simpson’s fish with ...

A popular New Mexico hiking trail near a major US atomic weapons facility is allegedly contaminated with radioactive waste comparable to the ruins of Chernobyl, but the government denies there’s ...

"There is a ~1.9-billion-year gap between eruptions recorded at the landing site. The presence of such young lunar volcanism ...