Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

At its core, the diamond battery thrives on decay — specifically, the decay of the carbon-14 isotope. Carbon-14 is best known ...

Ukraine's nuclear ghosts have been stirred up again after a drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of the ...

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In 2022, samples from a Sahara dust storm showed that radioactivity from nuclear tests 70 years ago still drifts around ...

After an apparent drone strike blew a hole in the protective shell, there is an urgent need to patch what covers the wreckage ...

A Russian drone attack struck the radiation shelter over Chernobyl's onetime nuclear power plant, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia has denied any involvement, accusing Ukra ...

The large Saharan dust cloud that blanketed Europe back in March 2022 contained some unexpected ingredients, according to a ...

An international team of climate scientists has found that dust brought to parts of Europe in 2022 from the Saharan desert ...

The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency said radiation levels at the shuttered plant in the Kyiv region have not ...