Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have unveiled a groundbreaking method for rapidly detecting and measuring radioactivity in minuscule samples. The technique, ...

A school was the first place to accurately monitor radiation reaching the UK after the disaster, a former teacher says.

Thanks to stints as an X-ray technician in my early 20s followed by work in various biology labs into my early 40s, I’ve been classified as an “occupationally exposed worker” with regard to ionizing ...

What is dark matter? What are neutrinos all about? How do stars work and what was actually going on in the universe in the first minutes after the Big Bang? To answer these questions, you need very ...

From soil and water, radioactive materials also moved into plants and animals, which posed risks to human health ...

Catalog house Co., Ltd., which publishes J-Rap Co., Ltd., a vegetable producer group of Fukushima Prefecture and catalog magazine "mail order living", operates directly in the Shimbashi / Ginza area, ...

The issue of nuclear radiation has resurfaced in the minds of many people today. The news we hear in the media encourages us to undertake extra checks in the areas where we live. The latest breaking ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...