Tag: radioactivity
Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation...
Lauren Cassidy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear...
Uranium enrichment: A chemist explains how the surprisingly common element is...
André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology
When most people hear the word uranium, they think of mushroom clouds,...
Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Benjamin Roulston, Clarkson University
Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the...
How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh...
Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University; Katharina Domnanich, Michigan State University, and Sean Liddick, Michigan State University
Each October, the...
Even before Hiroshima, people knew the atomic bomb
Matt Lavine, Mississippi State University
Milton Rothmar, an American Army corporal stationed in Italy, got the news about the...
EXPLORING NATURE
Formula 1 racing shows the hard part of reaching net‑zero carbon...
Caitlin Grady, George Washington University and Sachi Nandurkar, George Washington University
Formula 1 auto racing is one of the...
