CubeSat satellite activates after a powerful solar storm and discovers two new and mysterious radiation belts around Earth.

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...

The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both ...

Uncle Sam conducted several pointless and destructive experiments on his own people during the Cold War. The most infamous was MKUltra, the CIA's project to develop procedures for mind control using ...

CARER in Mangaluru launches international radon measuring device experiments to enhance accuracy and global standards in ...

Scientists replicated their breakthrough December 2022 nuclear fusion experiment. But this time, they produced even more energy from the experiment than the first time. These experiments are history ...

The ruined No. 4 reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1987, some 14 months after the disaster. Image: Mark J. Porubcansky (AP) An experiment done aboard the International Space Station ...

RICHLAND, Wash.—Imagine trying to tune a radio to a single station but instead encountering static noise and interfering signals from your own equipment. That is the challenge facing research teams ...