Congress asked the National Academies to review the civilian uses of radiation sources that contain radionuclides and the potential replacements for sources that pose a high risk to public health or ...

People often think of radiation as the basis for carbon-free nuclear power. But radiation can also save lives. That’s especially true in hospitals where professionals use nuclear medicine to make ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - The Texas A&M Engineering Extension, also known as TEEX, demonstrated how to identify and locate a radiation source in the middle of a disaster on Friday. 18 students ...

Radioactive sources are used in the oil and gas industry to characterize wells providing critical data to exploit geological formations in pursuit of oil caches. These mobile radioactive sources are ...

Internal radiotherapy gives radiation from inside the body. It is also known as brachytherapy. A small radioactive material called a source is put into your body, inside or close to the cancer. Or ...

Deep in the cosmos, an enigmatic object emits gamma rays at energies more than 100 TeV, an intensity far beyond what we typically observe. Discovered in 2021 by the Large High Altitude Air Shower ...

Cosmic space is filled with continuous, diffuse high-energy radiation. To find out how this energy is produced, the scientists behind ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory have tried an unusual method: ...

In places like Chernobyl and Fukushima, where nuclear disasters have flooded the environment with dangerous radiation, it makes sense that life might evolve ways to survive it. But one of the most ...

Congress asked the National Academies to review the civilian uses of radiation sources that contain radionuclides and the potential replacements for sources that pose a high risk to public health or ...