Could a century-old military communication method be quietly protecting our planet from deadly space radiation? NASA’s Van Allen Probes, launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, stumbled ...

Scientists have revealed key properties of radioactive promethium, a rare earth element with poorly understood applications, using a groundbreaking new method. When you purchase through links on our ...

A flexible layered sulfide captures hydrated rare earth ions from radioactive water, enabling fast and selective cleanup while maintaining chemical stability and radiation resistance in a tunable ...

When you look at the sky, you only see a bright blue picture with clouds, some planes, maybe the occasional flying bird, and that’s about all. Nothing seems out of the picture, but beyond that, there ...

A spacecraft en route to spy on Jupiter and its moons has snapped a rare and excitingly high-definition picture of the Earth's radiation belt. The European Space Agency's Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons ...

Radioactive potassium, common enough on Earth to make potassium-rich bananas one of the “hottest” foods around, appears also to be a substantial source of heat in the Earth’s core, according to recent ...