Researchers have developed a better bolometer, a device for measuring electromagnetic radiation. The new technology is faster, simpler, and covers more wavelengths. Bolometers, devices that monitor ...

Researchers have found a new way to measure radiation damage in materials, quickly, cheaply and continuously, using transient grating spectroscopy. Materials exposed to a high-radiation environment ...

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change's Radiation and Chemical Protection Department has carried out a campaign to safely dispose off the old devices used to measure radiation. Under a ...

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. — The North Carolina Radiation Protection Section of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services received a report of a measuring tool with a radioactive component that was ...

In medicine, there is a phrase used for immeasurable things. It describes that which can”t be captured, things that can”t be represented by a unit of measure; things that can”t be seen by the ...

Two devices used to measure radiation were stolen from a Hampton man’s Jeep this week. The devices cost about $12,000 apiece, but are probably worthless to the thieves, said people who use them. ”It ...

A simple wireless device implanted into tumors could give clinicians a more accurate indication of the amount of radiation that the tumors receive during treatment. The device, under development by ...

For the past 250 years, people have mined coal industrially in Pennsylvania, U.S.. By 1830, the city of Pittsburgh was using more than 400 tons of the fossil fuel every day. Burning all that coal has ...

Cambridge, Mass. -- Materials exposed to a high-radiation environment such as the inside of a nuclear reactor vessel can gradually degrade and weaken. But to determine exactly how much damage these ...