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Physicists Shrinks X-Ray Source

Thursday, October 1st, 2009 - 14:26:32 - Anuradha Menon

A team of physicists has built a small, powerful X-ray source — a prototype of the sort of machine they hope could replace much larger facilities...

Rutherford Cancer Deaths 'Coincidence'

Thursday, October 1st, 2009 - 10:34:56 - Anuradha Menon

An independent investigation into the deaths of six workers at the former laboratory of the father of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford, has...

Atomic Agency Rescues 'Dirty Bomb' Material

Saturday, September 12th, 2009 - 18:55:27 - Anuradha Menon

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repatriated dozens of Russian-made, highly radioactive sources that had been languishing unused in...

Filling Fullerene with Radioactive Atoms
Monday, August 24th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
Scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) have developed a hands-off process for filling fullerenes with...

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New Cold Fusion Evidence Reignites Debate

Thursday, March 26th, 2009 - 12:46:09 - Anuradha

On Monday, scientists at the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in Salt Lake City announced a series of experimental results that they argue...

Atomic Nucleus Takes Two Shapes

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 - 18:44:33 - Sarah Gingichashvili

The squashed heart of a sulphur isotope fluctuates between different states. Contrary to some expectations in the world of nuclear physics...

Radioactive Waste No More a Pain in the Ash

Friday, August 22nd, 2008 - 16:00:35 - Anuradha Menon

A new recycling plant will soon recover uranium from the ashes of radioactive garbage to be recycled back into nuclear fuel using an efficient...

New Material for Nuclear Waste Clean-Up

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 - 14:12:00 - Ehud Rattner

A team of Northwestern University chemists is the first to focus on metal sulfide materials as a possible source for nuclear waste remediation...

Killing Lone Cancer Cells Using Alpha-Particles
Friday, September 28th, 2007 - Asaf Peer
In a new research currently taking place in the University of Washington (UW), scientists are trying to use alpha-particles'...