Fifty years old this month, Kraftwerk's single Radioactivity was a groundbreaking track that morphed into the German electronic pioneers' most political protest song.

Despite forming in 1970, Kraftwerk’s imperial period didn’t begin until four years later with the release of Autobahn, home to the nearly 23-minute title track. Things gelled on this cinematic ...

The nuclei of certain atoms are stable and under ordinary circumstances, stable nuclei do not undergo change. The nuclei of other atoms are unstable. These nuclei undergo change spontaneously, that is ...

Radioactivity is defined as the release of energy by means of radiation in atoms. It was first discovered in the year 1896 by Henri Becquerel, who carried out further experiments in conjunction with ...

There are many factors to consider when saying “radioactivity is hazardous.” Here is an attempt to summarize them in five points. Radiation is not an age-old reality; in fact, the discovery of ...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) marine chemist Ken Buesseler began sampling and analyzing seawater surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant three months after the 2011 ...