After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a ...

A 24-year-old Australian man could go to jail for ten years as he prepares to plead guilty for importing plutonium from a US-based science website.

An Australian man described as a "science nerd" may face jail time, after attempting to collect all the elements in the ...

Imagine never charging your phone again or having a pacemaker that lasts a lifetime. Scientists are developing tiny nuclear ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Scientists have developed a prototype nuclear battery using radiocarbon that could power small devices for decades without ...

Sometimes cell phones die sooner than expected or electric vehicles don't have enough charge to reach their destination. The ...

Marie Curie made groundbreaking discoveries in radioactivity, earning her two Nobel Prizes. She discovered polonium and ...

The lack of regulatory oversight of radioactive waste in the oil and gas industry has created an environment ripe for some ...

As nuclear energy gains public acceptance, compact nuclear batteries could bring "safe nuclear energy into devices the size of a finger.

Instead, they rely on the radioactive decay of elements to produce heat and eventually electricity. While this concept sounds ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for ...