Birds in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl are adapting to – and may even be benefiting from – long-term exposure to radiation, ecologists have found. The study, published in the British Ecological ...

For the first time, researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have been able to identify in human cancers two characteristic patterns of DNA damage caused by ...

The simple mention of the word “radiation” often evokes fear in people. For others, it’s fun to think a little exposure to radiation could turn you into the next superhero, just like the Hulk. But is ...

Nearly four decades after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the abandoned reactor remains one of the most hostile places on Earth. Radiation levels that would prove lethal to most forms of life still ...

Radiation is how energy, such as light or heat, moves around. Ionising radiation is high-energy radiation. We are exposed to small amounts of ionising radiation every day. It can come from natural ...

Hand held radiation monitors don’t detect inhaled plutonium particles which can lodge in the lung and cause long term damage. AAP The March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan and complicating nuclear ...

Ionising radiation includes sub-atomic particles and electromagnetic radiation whose energy is high enough to ionise atoms and molecules. The detection and analysis of such types of radiation - which ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Hazardous Substances Regulatory Authority (HSRA) is urging facilities utilising equipment and material that emit ionising radiation to obtain the requisite authorisation. This ...

An overview of the risks from exposures to non-ionising radiation, including UV, microwaves and electro-magnetic fields (EMF) Note: Laser radiation is covered in a separate guideline (see Laser ...

An international team of astronomers has been successful in detecting ionising photons from rare type of galaxies known as ‘Lyman Continuum Leakers’ using the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) ...