Common Bricks May Record Evidence of Nuclear Weapons
I hope you aren’t making nuclear weapons in your garage. If you are, your bricks know what you’re doing.
Snake-Like Probe to Get Deepest View Yet Into Damaged Fukushima Reactor
A new probe designed specifically to take a deep view of a damaged nuclear reactor at the Fukushima plant was unveiled…
That Emergency Exit Sign Is Radioactive (But That's Okay)
One of the major requirements of an illuminated exit sign is it has to keep glowing no matter what. That means that,…
Grand Central Station Is Radioactive
Behold, the miserable relic of a toxic era! Its denizens scurry through it, unaware or unable to avoid the poison it…
Fukushima Is Teaching Us How Radioactivity Spreads
After the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, scientists began a massive effort to monitor radioactive contamination of food…
One Way That Beer is Healthier Than Carrot Juice
If someone were to put a pint of beer and a pint of carrot juice in front of you, telling you to pick the safer option,…
Take a Tour of the Most Radioactive Places on Earth
People do some pretty dumb things for YouTube videos. Derek Muller does them for the sake of science, though. The host…
How to Store Nuclear Waste for 10,000 Years (and How Not To)
America has currently no plan for its nuclear waste. It did, however, at one point, have a supremely ambitious plan…
Radioactive boars from Chernobyl are still wandering around Germany
Nearly 30 years later, radiation from Chernobyl still scars the landscape. Perhaps most remarkably, some of that…
How Two Women Made Your Watch Glow in the Dark
On December 21, 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive element radium (in the form of radium…
The EPA Just Made NYC's Most Radioactive Place Into a Superfund Site
Yesterday, we enjoyed The New Yorker's engrossing interactive look at the strange history of NYC's most radioactive…
The Most Radioactive Place in New York City Is a Garage In Queens
Like so many NYC businesses, Primo Flat Fix occupies a nearly 100-year-old building. But this Queens, garage sits on a…
The Terrifying Age of Radioactive Toys for Kids
We've seen some really scary radioactive consumer products and a dozen nuclear-powered vehicle concepts from the…
Those Mexican Cobalt-60 Thieves Will Die of Radiation Exposure
Those Mexican thieves that stole a truckload of cobalt-60? They're virtually sure to die, according to experts.
Scientists find radioactive fracking waste in Pennsylvanian stream
A group of Duke University scientists have found concentrations of radium, a highly radioactive substance, in a stream…
Here's how Geiger counters really work
We all know the clicking of Geiger counters from movies, and we all know that the faster the counter clicks, the worse…
Fukushima's Radioactive Puddles Are More Serious Than Anticipated
Japan's nuclear agency wants to raise the severity level of the new radioactive water leak at the Fukushima because the…
The women who took radium from savior to killer
The famous radium girls took the reputation of radium from the savior of the sick to the killer of the poor. Working…
How to Create Random Numbers Using Radioactive Material
Think of a random number between one and ten. Most likely, you chose seven—so exactly how random was your choice?…