The amount of long-lived radioactive elements incorporated into a rocky planet as it forms may be a crucial factor in determining its future habitability, according to a new study by an ...

As a result, several everyday appliances and consumer items were manufactured with radioactive elements such as uranium, thorium, radium, and polonium. While most emitted only mild levels of radiation ...

Naturally occurring radioactive elements are substances whose atomic nuclei are unstable. To become stable, these nuclei spontaneously break down, or decay, by releasing energy in the form of ...

When most people think about radioactivity, their minds jump to nuclear power plants, medical X-rays, or maybe that ominous ...

MR. SODDY'S contention that there exist sets of elements, incapable of separation from each other by chemical means, has much experimental evidence to support it, taken from the behaviour of some of ...

Researchers from Indiana University (IU) have developed a new chemical principle that could have a major impact on the way we store nuclear waste by improving our ability to predict how engineered ...

The first-ever discovery of an extraterrestrial radioactive isotope on Earth has scientists rethinking the origins of the elements on our planet. The tiny traces of plutonium-244 were found in ocean ...

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An element-block is defined as a minimum functional unit composed of heteroatoms. The concept of ‘element-block material’ for designing advanced materials was proposed in 2015. In this review, the ...