Radioactive iodine treatment after thyroid cancer surgery usually means side effects like nausea and time in hospital isolated from loved ones. But new clinical trial results from researchers at UCL ...

For 20 years, KUOW’s RadioActive Youth Media brought listeners the stories and perspectives of young people in the Pacific Northwest. Through free workshops, high schoolers from mainly Western ...

Four radioactive wasp nests may indicate previously undetected environmental contamination at the decades-old Savannah River Site. Here’s what to know. By Emily Anthes Four radioactive wasp nests have ...

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 ...

THE extreme sensitivity of measurements of radioisotopes makes it possible to use the artificial radioelements as an aid in analytical chemistry. In our experiments we have used radioactive silver for ...