UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A protein can be used to recover and purify radioactive metals such as actinium that could be beneficial for next-generation drugs used in cancer therapies and medical imaging, ...

Researchers grew crystals containing actinium and illuminated them with X-rays to learn how the radioactive metal binds with other elements. That information could help design better cancer treatments ...

This story was a collaboration between St. Louis Public Radio and the Belleville News-Democrat. Along the border of Venice and Madison in the metro-east, a 1.4 million-square-foot factory and former ...

Whether its lead from old buildings, arsenic from contaminated food or strontium fallout from a nuclear explosion, heavy metals that enter the body pose a serious health threat. With chemical ...

Bacteria can use certain radioactive elements to sustain their metabolism. A team led by LMU chemist Lena Daumann has demonstrated for the first time that bacteria can use certain radioactive elements ...

Environmentalists urged the Bush administration Thursday not to lift a Clinton-era ban on recycling scrap metals from Department of Energy nuclear facilities. They say allowing the metals to be ...

This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, shows labels for Kroger Mercado Cooked Medium Peeled Tail-Off Shrimp recalled by AquaStar USA ...

State health officials are looking for the person who threw away a small but highly radioactive piece of metal last month during Grand Junction's spring cleanup. The metal piece, barely the size of ...

Europa has a vast, saltwater ocean beneath its icy shell, with more than twice the amount of water in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Contaminated metal at an industrial site in Indonesia may be the source of radioactive material that led to massive recalls of imported frozen shrimp, international nuclear safety officials say, as ...