Electric vehicles use complex electrical systems to deliver power to wheels. Are these systems harmful to human drivers?

With the rise of smartphones and how they’ve become almost a part of our bodies, so many amazing technological advances have been made. However, this also means that some concerns have been raised.

Radiation therapy, or radiotherapy, is a type of cancer treatment in which specialists kill cancerous cells in the body by exposing them to ionizing radiation, such as X-rays, gamma rays, high-energy ...

The Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) in Bethesda, Md., is a Department of Defense (DoD) research laboratory and the nation's authority on the effects of ionizing radiation.

Electricity is a regular part of life these days. Most people who grew up in the U.S. don’t know what it’s like to live without a readily available energy source in their home. Our homes are filled ...

The world around us is a scary place, with a lot of visible and invisible dangers. Some of those invisible dangers are pretty obvious, such as that of an electrical shock from exposed wiring. Some are ...

People who work in jobs where they are continuously exposed to low levels of ionizing radiation may be at increased risk of hypertension, according to new data from a decades-long study of Russian ...

Military personnel enter active duty knowing there are risks involved. One risk that affects a small proportion of veterans is illness caused by radiation exposure during service. Most veterans don’t ...

Exposure to moderate-to-high doses of ionizing radiation have been associated with several acute leukemias. In the current analysis, the relative risk for any leukemia rose from 1.29 to 1.82 at ...

There is no good evidence that radiation from cell phones causes cancer, but the possibility can't be ruled out. Either way, wearing a wired headset or Bluetooth headphones is a good way to reduce ...

More than 100 Connecticut businesses use low-level radioactive materials, mostly for X-rays, CT scans and PET scans.