[UPDATED 4/28: with information from FDA. Altered sentences in italics.] A radioactive isotope of strontium has been detected in American milk for the first time since Japan's nuclear disaster—in a ...

Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help descendants of enslaved people reconstruct their family histories. Strontium is an ...

Osteoporotic structural damage and bone fragility result from reduced bone formation and increased bone resorption. In a phase 2 clinical trial, strontium ranelate, an orally active drug that ...

If you are concerned about the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, you may have heard about treatment with strontium. Some people say this supplement improves bone health, but it’s important to think ...

Talk about the perils of atomic radiation has swelled in volume and intensity ever since the U.S. and Russia fired their much-publicized H-bombs in 1954. From public forums and presses all over the ...

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be ...

Fallout — radioactive material from a nuclear explosion — exists in every corner of the world. Nuclear fallout from a bomb is less dangerous long-term than from a nuclear power plant disaster. Fallout ...

Strontium titanate was once used as a diamond substitute in jewelry before less fragile alternatives emerged in the 1970s. Now, researchers have explored some of its more unusual properties, which ...