Editor’s note: February is American Heart Month. On Tuesdays this month, The Westfield News is partnering with Baystate Noble Hospital to publish articles about heart health and heart care services at ...

The detection and study of isotopes, atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons, could expand the ...

ITHACA, N.Y. — Using radioactive isotopes as fuel, a tiny battery developed at Cornell University here could turn out to be an ideal power source for remote sensors or other small-scale systems.

Researchers measured very precisely atomic masses of radioactive lanthanum isotopes and found an interesting feature in their nuclear binding energies. The discovery provides essential data for ...

In Lower Alloways Creek, the PSEG Salem Nuclear Power Plant is making Cobalt-60, a vital isotope for sterilizing medical ...

Two decades in the making, a new flagship facility for nuclear physics opened on May 2, and scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have a hand in 10 of its first 34 ...

On a Wednesday morning in late January 1896 at a small light bulb factory in Chicago, a middle-aged woman named Rose Lee found herself at the heart of a groundbreaking medical endeavor. With an X-ray ...

A research team has developed the world's first next-generation betavoltaic cell by directly connecting a radioactive isotope electrode to a perovskite absorber layer. By embedding carbon-14-based ...

EAST HANOVER, N.J. (WISH) — Pharmaceutical company Novartis on Wednesday announced it’s starting construction of new facilities for its targeted nuclear medicine that doctors use to treat cancer. The ...

The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...

Analysis of meteorite Erg Chech 002 shows that the radioactive isotope aluminum-26 was unevenly distributed in the early Solar System, overturning previous theories. (Yuri Amelin) A little over four ...