Producing radium isotopes to treat cancer could get easier. Researchers developed a method to recover medical radium isotopes. The process begins with the dissolved proton-irradiated thorium target ...

Scientists need a better understanding of the chemistry of radium to be able to target the isotope radium-223 (Ra-223) to cancer cells. Once delivered, Ra-223 can destroy those cells with alpha ...

For the first time in history, scientists have measured radium's bonding interactions with oxygen atoms in an organic molecule. Scientists have not measured this bonding before because radium-226 is ...

Study explains how radioactive radium transfers to wastewater in the widely-used method to extract oil and gas. Radioactivity in fracking wastewater comes from the interaction between a chemical ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now producing Actinium-227 to meet projected demand for a highly effective cancer drug, the laboratory announced. Scientists use Actinium-227 to derive a Radium ...

Researchers have made a discovery that will help with the search for electric dipole moments in atoms, and could contribute to new theories of particle physics such as supersymmetry. An international ...

Illustration of the structure of the radium compound characterized in this research. Single crystal X-ray diffraction provided detailed information on the bonding of radium in an organic molecule for ...