What’s going on with this silent threat that can stealthily damage your body in ways that can take years to reveal themselves ...

Radioactive decay is the strange and almost mystical ability for one element to naturally and spontaneously transmute into another. In the process, those elements tend to emit deadly forms of ...

Naturally occurring radioactive elements are substances whose atomic nuclei are unstable. To become stable, these nuclei spontaneously break down, or decay, by releasing energy in the form of ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...

BetaVolt's BV100 is smaller than a coin and contains a radioactive isotope of nickel that decays into copper and supplies power to a device for up to 50 years. But it probably won't power your ...