The gas is invisible and odorless, and can cause lung cancer after becoming trapped in homes and buildings. But there are ...

Taking a soak in a thermal spa might seem a much-needed break, worlds away from the relentless election campaigning, but they ...

A lawsuit charges National Grid, a major gas utility, with mismanaging a toxic industrial site near two densely-populated ...

Imagine a world without sunlight, buried under miles of rock, where temperatures soar and pressures crush. Now, imagine that ...

The IAEA has signed an agreement with German state-owned company Wismut GmbH to strengthen cooperation in the safe management and remediation of uranium mining sites around the world.

Engineers have made bacteria to produce hyperspectral signals that can be detected as far as 90 meters away. Their work could lead to the development of bacterial sensors for agricultural and other ...

When we think of radioactivity, images of nuclear reactors or radioactive waste often come to mind. However, radiation is a ...

Radon is an odorless, colorless gas that is a leading cause of lung cancer. This Lehigh Valley student says more schools ...

Bauxite refinement generates hazardous waste with high levels of arsenic and chromium along with naturally occurring radioactive materials, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The Atalco ...

Nuclear Power In Everything? When nuclear power generation became a practical technology, it gave hope that the energy that had so far only been used to create world-ending bombs could also save the ...

In a new breakthrough, a team of physicists from the U.S. has successfully demonstrated a new way to detect radioactive materials using carbon-dioxide lasers — from a distance. The potential ...