Researchers at the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and the University of the Ryukyus have ...

In part one, we trace the radioactive contamination found in the shipyard soil today back to its origins, with nuclear bomb testing in the Marshall Islands. We also hear from environmental justice ...

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Planning and Carrying Out Investigations: Designing experiments to measure radioactive decay and the effects of radiation. (Example: Conducting experiments to observe how distance and shielding ...

Nearly four decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a black fungus is thriving on the walls of one of the most radioactive buildings on Earth, challenging scientists’ understanding of how life ...

Scenes from the nuclear theater of a long cold war: In the 1940s and '50s, when Americans still trusted their doctors and their government, researchers subjected hundreds of ill-informed people to ...

Shocking declassified files have revealed how the US government intentionally injected Americans with radioactive substances without their knowledge or consent. This happened to 18 hospital patients ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has proposed using safety monitoring at synchrotron facilities to study the ...

Saint-Hubert, Quebec, October 18, 2001 – The Canadian Space Agency, in partnership with Thomson Nielsen of Ottawa, Ontario, has developed an experiment that will allow researchers, for the first time ...

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 ...