Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured ...
Ionizing radiation apparently didn’t prevent some types of bacteria from breeding in the water, but astonishingly, they are ...
The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...
The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.
Most people interpret radiation as a bad thing—but it isn’t always. In fact, radiation is a very normal phenomenon. For now, let’s just say that radiation is when an object produces energy. When a ...
Radiation can be defined as energy traveling through space. There are two types of radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing, which are differentiated by how they interact with matter. Non-ionizing ...
The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not ...
Dr. Eric van Rongen is vice chair at the International Commission on Non‐Ionizing Radiation Protection, which sets the global guidelines for phone makers and telecommunications companies on how much ...