Researchers have developed a prototype battery that harnesses radiation from nuclear waste to generate electricity, offering a potential ...

Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays while experimenting with cathode rays and crystals, leading to the realization that ...

Irish researches have created a unique approach involving gamma rays to find more peat soil spread throughout the country.

Nuclear power comes with almost zero greenhouse gas emissions, but has its own issues in the form of radioactive waste.

The search for gamma-ray line emission from the radioactive decay of 60Fe figures among the prime scientific objectives of the INTEGRAL mission. 60Fe is believed to be primarily produced in ...

Researchers have created a new way of finding peat soil, giving insight into where carbon is stored in the ground.

Researchers have developed a prototype nuclear battery that converts ambient gamma radiation into electricity using ...

The discovery of radioactivity provided geologists with a powerful tool to unlock Earth's history. The discovery soon revealed that radioactive elements decay at predictable rates, forming the basis ...

Throughout the history of the pursuit of neutrinoless double beta decay, “ORNL was the lead lab for a predecessor ... it usually does so by emitting a gamma ray — the highest-energy form of ...