It's all packed into a unit that's a fraction of an inch in size. Scientists create mind-blowing nuclear battery that can ...

But there's at least one substance in the periodic table that was named in response to a nearby element, and that's americium, the element that looks as if it should be pronounced [AMER-ICK-IUM]. It ...

Scientists from across several Chinese institutions have unveiled a new ultra-compact nuclear battery that has the potential ...

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz ...

There's much more neptunium to be found in the average household. That's because many smoke detectors use alpha particles from the element americium 241 to ionize the air in a detection chamber. The ...

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz, succeeded in determining the chemical properties of the ...

It’s widely known that a smoke detector is a good ionizing radiation source, as they contain a small amount of americium-241, a side product of nuclear reactors. But what about other sources?

There are already two different drug injections that can be used to treat people who have been exposed to radioactive plutonium, americium or curium. For decades, experts have also known that ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 6:27 a.m. in Los Angeles County. The wildfire has been burning on private land. At this ...

The decision for which bulb to illuminate is truly random, as it’s determined by the radioactive decay of a Americium-241 alpha particle source. A Geiger-Muller tube is used to detect alpha ...

One type of smoke detector uses Americium-241, an alpha particle source, to detect smoke. The alpha particles pass between the two charged metal plates, causing air particles to ionise (split into ...

An international team led by scientists of GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), and the ...