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

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?

Due to the fact that the radioisotopes used to power nuclear batteries are generally produced in nuclear reactors, ...

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 ...

That’s what [Richard] did using household items such as clock fingers for Radium, and smoke detectors for Americium. After the radioactive elements were separated from their household ...

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

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 ...

It took weeks to observe the behavior of one and a half dozen precious, but very short-lived, atoms of these exotic elements.

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 ...

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 ...

A micronuclear battery is built based on an autoluminescent americium–terbium compound that couples radioisotopes with energy transducers at the molecular level, resulting in an 8,000-fold ...