NASA has received the first images from a tiny spacecraft designed to study the stars that host distant planets. The mission, called the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, will track ...

Radiation therapy is one of the most effective treatments for many kinds of cancer, helping to destroy tumours and save lives. Because these treatments use high‑energy radiation directed at specific ...

FLORISSANT, Mo. — Demolition will begin next week for six consecutive homes in a Florissant neighborhood after radioactive waste was found underneath their homes on Cades Cove Drive. The Formerly ...

COPENHAGEN, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Small amounts of radioactive substances have been detected in air samples in Finland though there was no risk to public health, the country's nuclear safety watchdog ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University (HU) in Japan have developed a way to leverage the cameras on smartphones to provide accurate radiation readings. The system they created costs less than US$70 and ...

The pool of water that currently stores capsules full of cesium and strontium at Hanford looks eerie and glows a faint electric blue. These 1,936 highly radioactive capsules store a whopping one-third ...

Get an x-ray, and you get a small dose of radiation to visualize your bones and body structures to help you medically. Buy a smoke detector, you’re inviting a tiny source of radiation, americium-241, ...

Workers pull the first concrete cask filled with cesium capsules out of the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington. Washington state Department of ...

The specter of radioactivity in food just reared its head again, with another shipment of imported shrimp recalled for possible Cesium-137 contamination. The MAHA Commission 2025 report unfotunately ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would ...