The federal government hopes former coal towns will help the nuclear industry grow, by taking on the decades-long challenge of storing radioactive waste ...

The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became a status symbol ...

Radium was seen as a miracle product, and even used in lipsticks: only later was it realised that it was highly dangerous - Illustration by Ricardo Rey ...

a box with a silver wand that looks and acts like a Geiger counter. She uses it to detect gamma rays, a telltale sign of the radioactive particles that escaped when three reactors melted down at ...

Geiger counters are also useful for checking vintage items for radioactivity, which can even become a fun hobby! For example, in the past old watches and instrument dials were painted with ...

The KB6011 is a fourth-gen nuclear radiation detector for γ, X-ray, and β radiation. With a 5000 µSv/h range, high accuracy, real-time data, CPS/CPM stats, alarms, Type-C updates, and advanced ...

A former head of counter-terrorism has warned of "unintended ... seven, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar. Mr Basu told BBC Radio 4's Today programme extending the definition of terrorism ...

And it was revealed that 162 people were referred to the counter-terrorism Prevent programme last year because of “concerns relating to school massacres ... after 18-year-old Rudakubana ...

Rudakubana was referred to the government's counter-terrorism Prevent programme three times, between 2019 and 2021, over his general obsession with violence. On Monday the 18-year-old admitted ...