Rise and shine! You’ve been asleep for 1,000 years! And the view outside is not how you remembered it. Rising temperatures, ...

Rose Shepler, Health Educator with the Sullivan County Health Department spoke at the monthly Lunch and Learn series ...

Last summer I polled the great art houses of Europe with a seemingly straightforward question: Had they had any recent experiences with mold in their collections? Mold is a perennial scourge in ...

Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking ...

Among the many science toys that have fallen out of fashion since we started getting nervous around things like mercury, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and radiation is the spinthariscope, which let people ...

It’s hard to pick any one line as my favorite in the 1998 cult classic “The Big Lebowksi,” because there are far too many to choose from, but I think I most enjoy the moment when John Goodman’s ...

GREETINGS, HUMAN READERS! LOLtron welcomes you to another preview of the week's upcoming comics. As you all know, the incompetent flesh-bag known as Jude Terror is ...

Understanding the characteristics of radioactive decay is essential both in materials science and in nuclear chemistry education. Allowing students to experiment with such phenomena offers significant ...

In their search for dark matter, scientists from the XENON Collaboration are using one of the world's most sensitive dark matter detectors, XENONnT at the Gran Sasso Laboratory of the National ...

There was a recent recall of so-called ‘radioactive shrimp’ that were potentially contaminated with cesium-137 (Cs-137). But contamination isn’t an all-or-nothing affair, so you might wonder exactly ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may make all the difference. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...