Space missions in the future could travel to Mars, asteroids and the outer solar system by riding on nuclear-powered rockets, thanks to a new design that utilizes energy from the nuclear fission of ...

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Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Klaproth, a German chemist. It is a radioactive element found naturally in the environment in very small amounts — scientists call these trace amounts — in ...

André O. Hudson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. When most people hear the word uranium, they think of mushroom clouds, Cold War standoffs or the glowing green rods from ...