What do granite and bananas have in common? Radioactivity. As it turns out, radioactivity is all around us and has been for eons. About 25 years ago, I was doing radiation surveys at a NASA research ...

Coloradans are subjected to, on average, four times more naturally occurring radiation than the average American. It is the price of living in a mountainous and geologically rich region, but the full ...

Large areas of the ocean floor are covered with polymetallic nodules and crusts. The potato-sized manganese nodules can be found in all oceans, especially in the Pacific Ocean, at water depths between ...

Natural resources that are extracted from the ground such as coal, oil, natural gas and other mineral ores contain various amounts of natural radioactivity. When these resources are extracted and ...

When most people hear the word "radioactive," they tend to picture nuclear disasters like Ukraine's 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe or Japan's 2011 Fukushima meltdown. But in reality, radioactivity — the ...

It wasn’t long after Dr Laura Manenti landed in Sydney that she realised her new home was rather radioactive. The Milan-born experimental particle physicist had been working in Abu Dhabi before she ...

The issue of nuclear radiation has resurfaced in the minds of many people today. The news we hear in the media encourages us to undertake extra checks in the areas where we live. The latest breaking ...