In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving ...

Radioactive nuclear fallout can contaminate the food chain poisoning any produce it touches and the animals that eat it.cyano66 / Getty Images Fallout — radioactive material from a nuclear explosion — ...

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

There might be an unexpected ingredient in your glass of California red wine. If your bottle of choice was made after 2011, it could have small amounts of radioactive particles from a major nuclear ...

A new theory suggests fusion reactors could help scientists search for axions, mysterious particles that may explain dark ...

The Washington State Department of Health has sent a strongly worded letter of concern to the U.S. Energy Department about elevated readings of radioactive contamination that state monitoring has ...

Nuclear bombs are universally feared for their catastrophic power and the long-lasting consequences they can inflict. At ground zero, buildings can be obliterated, causing massive loss of life, while ...

After a series of attacks on Iran made by Israel, and a number of retaliation attacks from Iran, the U.S. intervened on June 21. The U.S. completed military strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites, ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

The two workers who took the brunt of contamination during a release of radioactivity in a 2021 incident within the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power reactor have sued Energy Northwest. The ...

On a Wednesday morning in late January 1896 at a small light bulb factory in Chicago, a middle-aged woman named Rose Lee found herself at the heart of a groundbreaking medical endeavor. With an X-ray ...