Jairus Hines at ORNL uses drones for cost-effective radiation detection, enhancing safety in national security missions.

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into being. As Stephen Hawking predicted, black holes don’t only draw particles in, ...

In this week’s Science for All newsletter, Vasudevan Mukunth explains a new way to detect radioactive materials using ...

NIH-supported researchers have developed a new method using a protein from tardigrades to help protect healthy tissue during cancer radiation therapy, showing early promise in lab tests.

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Yale scientists have discovered a promising way to trigger immune responses against certain tumors, using a lupus-related ...

While they once held prominent places in superheroes' supporting casts, these minor side characters have either disappeared ...

Buckeye scientists have a scintillating idea for recycling nuclear waste to generate even more energy from the abundant, air ...

A new study explains how thunderstorm electric fields produce strong gamma‐ray glows with oscillating gamma‐ray rates, and that these oscillations develop into intense pulse trains that closely ...

New research led by W. M. Keck Observatory Instrument Scientist and astronomer Grant Hill has confirmed what scientists have long suspected—WR 104 comprises two massive stars: a Wolf-Rayet star and an ...

Early on September 22, 1979, satellites picked up an exceedingly bright double flash in the South Atlantic that has never ...