From elements that explode on contact with water to those that vanish in seconds, the periodic table is full of strange, rare ...

Studying the radioactive element has posed a decades-long challenge, partly due to the difficulty of securing a suitable sample, team member Alexander Ivanov, also a research and development ...

Bacteria can use certain radioactive elements to sustain their metabolism. A team led by LMU chemist Lena Daumann has demonstrated for the first time that bacteria can use certain radioactive ...

However, these radioactive elements are hard to handle. This makes it difficult for scientists to develop their molecular chemistry. The ligands and electrochemical studies in the research ...

HELENA -- Radioactive elements have been detected in all of the 128 residential wells that were tested in a recent seven-county study in south-central Montana, with 49 wells - 29 ...

This substance was injected into tumors in various mouse models of pancreatic cancer along with a radioactive element called iodine-131, an isotope that is well-studied and widely used in medical ...

But the deep sea of magma, hidden below Mars’s solid mantle and kept molten by radioactive elements, is exotic. “It does not exist on Earth,” Dr. Khan said, and its presence may require a ...

Scientists have revealed key properties of radioactive promethium, a rare earth element with poorly understood applications, using a groundbreaking new method.