What do the Curie couple, Henrie Becquerel, Louis Harold Gray, and Ralf Sievert have in common? These radiation pioneers defined the way we measure ionizing radiation. Pierre and Marie Curie created ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have unveiled a groundbreaking method for rapidly detecting and measuring radioactivity in minuscule samples. The technique, ...

What is dark matter? What are neutrinos all about? How do stars work and what was actually going on in the universe in the first minutes after the Big Bang? To answer these questions, you need very ...

An international team of physicists has successfully measured the size of a certain type of neutrino to a certain degree. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes ...

DURHAM, N.C. — The North Carolina Radiation Protection Section of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services received a report of a measuring tool with a radioactive component that was ...

Japanese authorities are planning to develop a 2.6-metre-long drone that could be launched in contaminated areas to measure radioactivity. The drone is jointly developed by Japan’s atomic energy ...

The issue of nuclear radiation has resurfaced in the minds of many people today. The news we hear in the media encourages us to undertake extra checks in the areas where we live. The latest breaking ...

SINCE the introduction of radioactive labels in biological research a tendency has arisen to measure the specific radioactivity of nucleic acid components (usually expressed as counts per minute per ...