The most radioactive elements found on Earth include Polonium, Radium, and Radon. Learn why elements with short half-lives, ...

The government has announced that three 'small modular reactors' (SMRs) will be built at a new power station in Wylfa, on the ...

Childhood is often viewed through a soft-focus lens, a time of innocent play and endless afternoons. But lurking in the ...

Texas A&M researchers have unlocked a new way to harness astatine-211, a rare and powerful isotope that may revolutionize cancer treatment. Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element on the ...

Donald Trump is pushing to resume testing nuclear weapons, leading Vladimir Putin to do the same. The legacy of nuclear tests is devastating.

Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has tested the ‘Poseidon’ – a nuclear torpedo that his propagandists claimed could drown Britain under a 1,600ft wave of radioactive seawater. Russia began ...

Vladimir Putin warned that his troops carried out a "successful test" of his new "unstoppable" deadly underwater weapon. Russian state television has repeatedly called for the use of this deadly ...

Texas A&M scientists have unlocked new potential for astatine-211, a rare and short-lived element, as a highly precise cancer-fighting isotope. Its alpha emissions destroy tumor cells while sparing ...

Moscow has stressed that its recent weapons tests were 'not nuclear' after Donald Trump announced the US would begin testing its own nukes. The Kremlin said its testing of nuclear-powered ...

Peter Boerner ran out of cancer treatments in the spring of 2015. Up to that point, he had tried pretty much every option, including surgery when he was first diagnosed with stage 3 prostate cancer in ...