From cosmic rays to CT scans, radiation surrounds us but not all exposure is dangerous. Here’s how to separate fact from fear ...

An affordable Geiger counter has been launched via Kickstarter this month in the form of the Better Geiger Radiation Detector. Allowing you to own your very own Geiger counter featuring a rugged ...

A walkthrough of his conversion as well as the source code for both the Arduino counter and the Pachube uploader are available on his site, in case anyone else in the Tokyo area has a Geiger ...

If you want to monitor radiation levels from a specific source, you need a reliable Geiger counter.

Which Geiger counter is best? If you want to monitor radiation levels from a specific source, you need a reliable Geiger counter. This tool can warn you when there is radiation, as well as measure ...

Japan-based Sanwa has announced the so-called Geiger Fukushima , a portable and light (70g) geiger counter that uses the iPhone to measure beta and gamma ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

Geiger counters are used to detect and measure levels of radioactivity. Scientists invented the Geiger counter while working on experiments to prove that the center of an atom has a high-density zone, ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new and faster method for ...

The source of this ominous clicking? Geiger counters, the instruments used to detect and measure ionizing radiation —in this case, radioactive nuclear debris.