But in a little over two decades, its nuclear ... Their device — a carbon-14 diamond battery — is a strange fusion of radioactive decay, synthetic diamonds, and plasma chemistry.

Researchers at Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology have created a nuclear battery that could turn ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a ...

Radioisotopes of elements have a wide variety of uses. Cobalt-60 Used in medicine to treat cancer. Gamma rays can be focused on tumors. Iodine-131 Used to treat thyroid gland (in the neck).

An alpha particle consists of two protons and two neutrons and is often described as a helium nucleus. It is not the same as a helium atom as it does not contain any electrons but it is written ...

This kind of nuclear battery would only be the size of a finger, and such long-lasting nuclear batteries could enable ...

The IAEA Environment Laboratories apply nuclear and isotopic techniques ... These radioisotopes decay at known rates and are used as ‘clocks’ to determine how quickly carbon-containing particles are ...