The Latest Breaking News from Radiation

In searching for planets and studying their stars, I’ve had the privilege to use some of the world’s great telescopes. However, our team has recently turned to an even larger system to study the cosmos: Earth’s forests.

Earth has been hit by radiation levels up to 100 times greater than the most intense solar storm ever recorded at least six times over the past 10,000 years, according to radiocarbon stored in tree rings.

Technically known as radiological dispersal devices, dirty bombs are relatively primitive, imprecise weapons.

Dirty bombs have a psychological impact that far outweighs their danger to life, says US expert

Dirty bombs have long been feared as a potential weapon of terrorists because their main objective is to sow panic, confusion and anxiety by hurling radioactive dust and smoke into the atmosphere

Moscow and Kyiv have accused the other of preparing to strike with weaponry with radioactive material

In 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake caused tidal waves to smash into Fukushima, where they flooded the nuclear power plant's reactor cooling systems and triggered one of the world's worst ever nuclear disasters

There were about 200,000 new cases of cancer in Thailand in 2020. Recent advances in the fields of surgical oncology, medical oncology, and radiation oncology have immensely improved the results of cancer treatment. Even with the best multidisciplinary treatment, in more than half of the patients, cancer will recur and…

Astronomers have observed the brightest flash of light ever seen, from an event that occurred 2.4 billion light years from Earth and was likely triggered by the formation of a black hole. The burst of gamma-rays -- the most intense form of electromagnetic radiation -- was first detected by orbiting…

In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had even astronomers scratching their heads. The picture, which looks like a kind of “cosmic thumbprint”, came from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s newest flagship observatory.

The war in Ukraine has heightened fears about nuclear exposure — and interest in iodine pills that can help protect the body from some radiation