The nuclear age changed steel, and for decades we had to pay the price for it. The first tests of the atomic bomb were a milestone in many ways, and have left a mark in history and in the surface of ...

Surprisingly, exposure to a high background radiation might actually lead to clear beneficial health effects in humans, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Nuclear Research Center ...

The U.K. Health Protection Agency estimates the typical Briton receives about 2,200 microsieverts of radiation per year from background radiation, or about 0.251 microsieverts per hour — more than ...

Members of a high school science club gather in the school's chemistry lab for a lunchtime meeting to learn about local, natural sources of radiation as a nearby wall-mounted sensor box with glowing ...

A recent example of an investigation of the possible effects of natural background radiation upon the risk of childhood cancer is the UK Childhood Cancer Study (UKCCS), a large interview-based ...

Doing calculations with a quantum computer is a race against time, thanks to the fragility of the quantum states at their heart. And new research suggests we may soon hit a wall in how long we can ...

Deep in the Earth, a series of experiments is revealing how life suffers when it’s deprived of background levels of radiation. In 1987, a group of researchers in France discovered something peculiar.

When scientists talk about radiation, they are referring to photons, which are massless particles. According to quantum mechanics, the energy of a photon is directly proportional to its frequency (i.e ...

Neutrinos are one of the most mysterious particles in the universe, often called "ghost particles" because they rarely interact with anything else. Trillions stream through our bodies every second, ...

Las Vegas residents are likely to see a low and slow-flying helicopter over the valley on Sunday and Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration will conduct ...