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This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would obliterate any other living thing. Here’s what this means for science and humanity.

Earth has had a tumultuous past, so it's hard to get a clear idea of those wild early days. But a new study by researchers from the University of Adelaide raises the possibility that continents may ...

The nuclei of certain atoms are stable and under ordinary circumstances, stable nuclei do not undergo change. The nuclei of other atoms are unstable. These nuclei undergo change spontaneously, that is ...

When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the natural radioactive elements polonium and radium, they did something truly remarkable– they uncovered an entirely new property of matter. The Curies’ work ...

A New Science. The beginnings. The setting ; Rays and radiation ; Becquerel's discovery -- The Curies. Maria Skłodowska ; A consequential meeting ; New elements! -- Rutherford, Soddy, particles, and ...

In a few weeks, the great Texan garage-punks Radioactivity will release Time Won’t Bring Me Down, their first new album in a decade. Time has not brought them down. When the band shared the title ...