Potassium 40, the main source of radioactivity in our bodies, has a half-life of 1.42 billion years. Types of Radiation The term "radiation" is very broad, and includes such things as light and radio ...

The radiation emitted from unstable nuclei is called ionising radiation because as it passes through matter it can dislodge outer electrons from atoms causing them to become ions. An unstable ...

Between 1980 and 1989, four people between two young families would die of leukemia. The connection? They all lived in the same room in an apartment building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. Th ...

Researchers at Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology have created a nuclear battery that could turn ...

Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching ...

RHYL saw the biggest increase in ambient gamma radiation in Wales in January, a new study has found. This follows new data released by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, which showed ...

because their skulls are thinner and more at risk from the effects of radiation. The skull of a five-year-old, for example, is as thin as half a millimetre at the ear, whereas the skull of a 21 ...

The production of radioisotopes using particle accelerators poses significant radiation hazards to workers, members of the public, and the environment when accelerators are operated without adequate ...

So we're thinking, okay, how does that have a potential impact on other aspects of our life?" The cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika never knew what was coming. How could they? A star from dozens of ...