To understand nuclear decay equations. How to measure the activity of radioactive sources. Spontaneously means that the process of radioactive decay can not be speeded up or slowed down by physical ...

For the first time, researchers have directly observed an exotic type of radioactive decay called two-neutrino double electron capture. The decay, seen in xenon-124 atoms, happens so sparingly that it ...

Radioactive material gets a bad rap, what with radiation and fallout and nuclear waste and all. But it offers some practical uses. One of the coolest (OK, maybe the coolest) is using radioactive ...

A team of Italian researchers has uncovered compelling evidence of anomalous radioactive decay in cobalt-57 (Co-57) under ultrasonic stimulation, offering strong experimental support for the Deformed ...

Radioactive decay is the strange and almost mystical ability for one element to naturally and spontaneously transmute into another. In the process, those elements tend to emit deadly forms of ...

FOR ALL its eureka moments, science has taught us many unpalatable lessons about what we are powerless to do. We can’t dim the sun to remedy droughts or global warming. We can’t stave off the ravages ...

Scientists in Japan have persuaded a radioactive material to decay significantly faster than normal. The rate of decay of radioactive atoms is often regarded as something preordained and beyond our ...

Solar activity: does the Sun affect radioactive decay? Image of a solar flare taken in 2014 by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. (Courtesy: NASA/SDO) A new study of the radioactive decay ...

Martin Boland has received funding from the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. He has collaborated with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. On the weekend ...