This was a surprise as the half-life for that particular xenon was a half-life of 18 billion trillion years. That’s more than ...

Apparently us guys think about the Roman Empire 5 times a day, but from an economic Perspective it's hard to see why. While they did build a lot of architectural monuments, their economy was actually ...

Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...

For years, astronomers puzzled over the mystery of where the heaviest elements in the universe—like gold, uranium, and platinum—come from. Scientists understood that these elements had to form under ...

The Chinese company Betavolt New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., based in Beijing, previously presented a diamond nuclear battery at the beginning of 2024, which is slightly smaller than a coin and ...

Nuclear energy is among the most powerful energy sources in the world, but it's also one of the most controversial. At ExtremeTech, we'll show you how it works without bias.

Although natural decay of U-235 means that this is unlikely to happen again, we humans have learned to take uranium ore and start a controlled fission process in reactors, beginning in the 1940s.

Down the decay chain of uranium’s 4.5-billion-year half-life lies radium. Radium’s half-life is about 1,600 years, meaning in that time half of the radium is transmuted into other elements, slowly and ...

A new study reveals 18Mg’s unique multi-proton decay mechanism, enhancing understanding of nuclear dynamics and potentially impacting energy and quantum technologies. Future work aims to refine ...