Most people interpret radiation as a bad thing—but it isn’t always. In fact, radiation is a very normal phenomenon. For now, let’s just say that radiation is when an object produces energy. When a ...

Radiation can be defined as energy traveling through space. There are two types of radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing, which are differentiated by how they interact with matter. Non-ionizing ...

The concerns are not new: exposure to radiation from cell phones and the wireless infrastructure has been believed to increase the odds of cancer in a person. But modern mainstream thought goes that, ...

The 63 rd Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society wrapped up last week in the great city of Cleveland and there was a palpable air of excitement that things might change. HPS represents the group ...

Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895 was followed by a considerable burst of research: within a single year, approximately 1000 X-ray research papers were published. Yet, the scientists of the time ...