RadPC' flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon ...

This is basically a measure of how much punch ... only be useful only in catastrophically high radiation environments. SPIDs are extremely robust devices and most of them still work after many ...

What we’ve done is create an instrument where your hands don’t need to be inside the body,” said Dr. David Wazer. “It can be ...

Workers at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant are now wearing radiological dosimeters for the first ...

Efficient ways to measure radiation exposure are just as valuable ... can be made by applying a voltage to “write” to the device, by which one sets it to a particular resistance.

Armed with measuring devices, groups of citizens are embracing science to monitor radioactive fallout — and regain control of lives upended by the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima. Radiation from the ...

In this scenario, the biggest source of radiation was the phone sending ... in our study the phone was about 30 cm away from the measuring device, which means that our results might underestimate ...

Watch this video to see the procedure for measuring the activity of a radioactive sample, taking into account the background radiation. Radiation from natural sources and man made sources is ...