The radioactive ‘miracle water’ that killed its believers

In the 1920s, Radithor promised to cure everything from wrinkles to leukemia, but its unintended results were deadly.
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Earth Was Uninhabitable Until Collision That Created The Moon "Ultimately Made Life Possible"

A new take on the origins of Earth’s water claims to reveal the composition of the Earth in the first few million years after ...

How Do Scientists Really Date Prehistoric Fossils? Surrounding Rocks Hold the Clues.

Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

X-ray technique provides a new tool for nuclear forensics investigations

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are experts in nuclear forensics: the art and science of ...

High-order analysis reveals more signs of phase-change 'turbulence' in nuclear matter

Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

“Like Talking on the Telephone” – Quantum Breakthrough Lets Individual Atoms Chat Like Never Before

Scientists have linked nuclear spins inside silicon chips, marking a leap toward scalable quantum computers. Engineers at UNSW have achieved a major breakthrough in quantum computing by creating what ...