A research team at the University of Bristol has developed a way to use a type of nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery that is an actual diamond. Such a battery produces ...

The 43,000 tons of radioactive waste and soil came from a top-secret initiative: The Manhattan Project, which built the atomic bombs America dropped on Japan in 1945. In 1973, that waste ended up in ...

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“Regardless of whether you are for or against nuclear power, and no matter what you think of nuclear weapons, the radioactive waste is already here, and we have to deal with it.” That’s Gerald S.

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced it discovered a radioactive wasps' nest, with radiation levels more than 10 times those laid out in federal regulations, at a facility in South Carolina.

A miracle cream was launched in Paris in 1933. Billed as a “scientific beauty product,” it promised to improve circulation, firm muscle tissue, reduce fat and smooth wrinkles. It was part of a line of ...

Martin Boland has received funding from the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. He has collaborated with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. On the weekend ...

Dedicated at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, on Oct. 8, 2021. On a spring day in Boston in 1941, a young doctor from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) met a woman for a drink. But this was ...