Learn about nuclear energy as you listen to the audio book describing nuclear chemistry. View maps, examples, graphs, and pictures describing everything from electrons to beta emissions and more.

Site provides the ABC's of nuclear science including radioactivity and gamma decay to fission and comic rays.

Visit this site for an interactive tour of the atom and all aspects of particle physics. View the animations available with almost every description on this site. A great place for the fundamentals of particles and forces including a...

Enrico Fermi was a titan of twentieth-century physics. He outlined the statistical laws that govern the behavior of particles that abide by the Pauli exclusion principle and developed a theoretical model of the atom in his mid-twenties....

This article presents illustrations and a general discussion about radiation.

This site has lesson plans and activities related to radiation. Activities include measuring radiation with a Geiger counter and observing radiation 'footprints' in a cloud chamber.

Video explaining the process, risks, and benefits of radioactivity. [4:16] Followed by a short quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.

An interactive tutorial on positrons. Very readible and has a little extra for the advanced student.

Learn the fundamentals of particles and forces with this site. Explore the paths that explain matter in the universe.

The Committee on Elementary-Particle Physics, part of the U.S. National Research Council, presents this massive report on particle physics. It's a definitive document. Surprisingly readable, totally detailed. Start with the Table of...

This article announces the discovery of the top quark and its significance in particle physics.

Discussion of ways to create new elements of increased atomic number and thus to create ever more massive elements that are not found on Earth.

Overview of radioactivity, the process in which particles are emitted from nuclei as a result of nuclear instability.

Explains what is meant by the half-life of a radioactive element and how it is calculated.

Click to read different historical documents in chemistry related to the history of the study and discovery of radioactivity.

A very readable account of the discovery of radioactivity and its properties.

This online textbook chapter provides learners with advanced-level material on acids and bases.