Radiation is one of the most misunderstood topics in modern society, News.Az reports. Because it is invisible and often ...

Radiation is often described as something dangerous, mysterious, or connected only to nuclear accidents and weapons, News.Az ...

Radiotherapy is a major cancer treatment option but dose-limiting side effects such as late-onset fibrosis in the irradiated tissue severely impair quality of life in cancer survivors. Efforts to ...

(Example: Using data from the distance and shielding lab to understand the role that distance and shielding materials play in radiation exposure.) This lab was created with support from Dr. Nathaniel ...

Substances in its path can absorb radiation. For example, alpha radiation travels only a few centimetres in air, beta radiation travels tens of centimetres in air, and gamma radiation travels very ...

If a major disaster like Fukushima or Chornobyl ever happens again, the world would know almost straight away, thanks to an array of government and DIY radiation-monitoring programs running globally.

According to classical physics, electromagnetic radiation is a wave of electrical and magnetic energy that propagates through space (vacuum) at the universal speed of light (2.998 x 108 m/s). The ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...