Among ionising radiation, alpha and beta particles are charged particles that have widely attracted research attention because of their use in a number of applications including smoke detectors, ...

Alpha recoil: Conceptual drawing of the experiment, which detects the nuclear decay of individual helium nuclei by embedding radioactive atoms in a micron-sized object and measuring the object’s ...

On a Wednesday morning in late January 1896 at a small light bulb factory in Chicago, a middle-aged woman named Rose Lee found herself at the heart of a groundbreaking medical endeavor. With an X-ray ...

Radiation tends to strike fear in the hearts of the general populace, particularly the ionizing variety produced by X-rays and radioactive elements. But most have no idea what actual radiation looks ...

Novartis is adding on to its capabilities in radiopharmaceuticals through a deal to acquire Mariana Oncology, a startup with a drug pipeline and technologies that diversify the pharmaceutical giant’s ...

A man made a startling discovery after learning the "glow-in-the-dark" rock his grandfather stored under his shed was radioactive. In a post shared to Reddit's r/whatsthisrock, user ...

A study using gamma radiation to simulate Martian cosmic radiation demonstrated negative impacts on the growth of rye and garden cress, resulting in decreased biomass (48% and 32% respectively) and ...