Thanks to stints as an X-ray technician in my early 20s followed by work in various biology labs into my early 40s, I’ve been classified as an “occupationally exposed worker” with regard to ionizing ...

A small German instrument sent to the Moon on China's Chang'e 4 robotic spacecraft has taken the very first measurements of space radiation as it exists on the lunar surface. The findings come from ...

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 ...

Radiation from space is constantly entering Earth's atmosphere, but how much of it reaches the altitudes used by commercial ...

Radiation variations over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are crucial for global climate and regional ecological environment. Previous radiation studies over the TP were widely based on ground and satellite ...

In the coming years and decades, various nations want to explore the moon, and plan to send astronauts there again for this purpose. But on our inhospitable satellite, space radiation poses a ...

A new technology using drones, developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency for use by the authorities of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, allows for the remote monitoring of radiation ...

Without context, the term "radiation" sometimes refers to any type of radiated energy, including radio waves, microwaves, and visible light. It more commonly describes ionizing radiation, which ...

A two-month stint on the moon would expose astronauts to roughly the same amount of radiation as they would get living on the International Space Station for five months, according to new measurements ...

A wave of activity on the surface of the sun triggered a minor radiation storm and set off a chain of coronal mass ejections ...

Pre-1945 steel can help suppress background radiation in rare-event detectors, but modern ultra-low-background metals and ...