Radiation monitoring has long depended on bulky, specialized instruments that are scarce outside hospitals, research labs, and nuclear facilities. Now a wave of research is turning the cameras and ...

When a nuclear accident or terrorist attack affects thousands of people, medical teams face an impossible question: who was exposed to life-threatening radiation doses and who can safely go home?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An earlier version of SpaceTED, seen here, was installed on the International Space Station in 2018 but was damaged accidentally ...

Scientists have developed a new type of handheld multi-purpose radiation detector that comprehensively detects all types of ionizing radiation. The device can be used by industrial and medical ...

A smartphone camera can make you a walking gamma ray detector. Without needing any extra hardware, you could get a warning on your phone when you're approaching potentially harmful levels of gamma ...

Horiba has been granted a patent for a radiation detector featuring a radiation detection element and a circuit element housed in a closed space. This space, positioned away from the detection surface ...

The Universe contains much better particle accelerators than anything we humans can contrive. While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is capable of sending individual protons to energies of 7 trillion ...

The persistence of a pair of Oklahoma State University scientists to ensure the successful installation of a working radiator detector on the International Space Station paid off last month. Eric ...