Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

On this day in 1940, two scientists discovered an elusive form of carbon — and inadvertently opened a window into lost civilizations. Since the mid-1930s, scientists had predicted the existence of a ...

In a global first, researchers from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the University of Bristol have created a diamond battery using radioactive decay from carbon-14. The ...

Imagine a battery that doesn’t need replacing for thousands of years. That’s not science fiction—it’s the groundbreaking innovation that a group of researchers in the UK has recently achieved. By ...

Long-lasting batteries can have a profound impact on life-saving medical devices and space-based technologies, and a new diamond battery could extend the lives of these power sources by thousands of ...

A battery made of diamonds could power devices for thousands of years, scientists have announced. This battery would be powered by a diamond surrounding a radioactive isotope of carbon known as carbon ...

China's first batch of the carbon-14 isotope produced at a commercial reactor was officially dispatched on 16 May from the Qinshan nuclear power plant in Zhejiang province. (Image: CNNC) China ...

On the left, identified organically bounded C-14 (OBC-14, red dots) in metabolites of zebrafish brain were labeled in the KEGG global pathway map. The blending of C-14 induced significant effects such ...

Earth’s plants aren’t holding onto carbon as long as we thought. A new analysis of pulses of radioactive carbon-14 from 20th-century bomb tests reveals that plants stock more carbon in short-lived ...