Particle therapy is revolutionizing radiation oncology by enabling highly precise, individualized cancer treatments. As technology evolves, the integration ...

A NASA probe tasked with gathering data on Earth’s radiation belts has run out of fuel and is set to reenter through the atmosphere on Tuesday. NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is expected to re-enter the ...

Fruit flies’ exposure to radiation from the basis of modern federal radiation directives, the debate over how we calculate ...

Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured the effect of cosmic radiation in a cold molecular cloud. The observation ...

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 element radium can be found in extremely tiny amounts in the Earth’s crust and oceans, and in its pure form it is a soft silvery metal. To an untrained eye, a small piece of radium may look like a ...

Every electronic device in your home emits some form of radiation. But it's important to understand exactly what that means. When you hear "radiation," you might picture X-rays, radioactive materials, ...

In a May executive order, aimed at ushering in what he described as an “American nuclear renaissance,” President Donald Trump declared moot the science underpinning decades-old radiation exposure ...