Canada is moving to expand its role in supplying nuclear isotopes that could power ...

Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. A ...

Some nuclei of certain elements decay radioactively into nuclei of different elements. These decays can be useful or annoying depending on the context. This is especially true for potassium-40. This ...

For the first time, an international research team has succeeded in observing a two-photon decay on a so-called bare atomic nucleus from which the entire electron shell has been removed. The ...

Radioactivity is all around us. Even bananas contain trace amounts of radioactive potassium, with approximately 10 nuclei decaying every second in a typical banana. While these tiny amounts of ...

A barrel oozing radioactive waste at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. (NODSSUM Campaign, CNRS, French Oceanographic Fleet) ...

Scientists have gained insights into the weak nuclear force from new, more sensitive studies of the beta decays of the 'mirror' nuclei lithium-8 and boron-8. The weak nuclear force drives the process ...

A strange decay pattern once weakened the glueball case for f0(1710. New models and experiments turned that problem into ...

In this lesson, students will simulate the randomness of decay in radioactive atoms and visualize the half-life of a sample radioactive element. This lesson can be completed in two (2) 45-minute class ...

When a nuclear power plant shuts down, the heat from the reactor doesn't disappear right away. Even after the chain reaction ...