Talk about the perils of atomic radiation has swelled in volume and intensity ever since the U.S. and Russia fired their much-publicized H-bombs in 1954. From public forums and presses all over the ...

Scientists detected strontium in the aftermath of a dead-star collision. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the first time, ...

For the first time, astronomers have definitively ID’d a specific heavy element forged by a neutron star merger. Theories of physics have long predicted that about half of the universe’s heavy ...

Just how dangerous to the human race is the radioactive fallout from nuclear-weapons tests? The subject is enormously complex, and to understand all aspects of it requires expert knowledge of many ...

In research published in Physical Letters B, a collaboration of scientists has used the RI Beam Factory (RIBF) at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science in Japan to show that cesium ...

DETAILED knowledge of the behaviour of strontium-90 in soil is of particular importance in assessing the long-term consequences of its deposition on agricultural land. Experiments have been carried ...

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Strontium-90 is not good news. It emits ionizing radiation, which means you want to keep it out of our body. Unfortunately, your body has other ideas. The body’s own mechanisms welcome this isotope in ...

Strontium can be derived through the electrolysis of fused chloride mixed with potassium chloride. Another option is to make strontium by reducing strontium oxide with aluminum at a temperature ...

Shaun Adams receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Michael Westaway is an ARC Future Fellow and receives funding from the Australian Research Council. To mark the International Year of ...