By sparking the immune system into action, radiation therapy makes certain tumors that resist immunotherapy susceptible to ...

Paralleling the Cavendish experiment, the apparatus mitigates convective forces from reflectors heating to provide an ...

Radioactive contamination from Coldwater Creek in Missouri linked to higher cancer rates, a Harvard study finds, as Congress ...

Radiation therapy, once thought of mainly as a local cancer treatment, is now showing power to awaken the immune system in surprising ways. Researchers discovered that combining radiation with ...

In 1947, Kix cereal ran a promotion for an "Atomic Bomb Ring" that contained radioactive polonium-210, one of the deadliest ...

As plans for missions to Mars accelerate, so do questions about how the human body might cope. A return trip to the red ...

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.

Radiation, more broadly, is present in sunlight and soil, in the air we breathe and the food we eat. It’s also in the technology we use, from X-rays to microwaves.

How much, where it is and how dangerous it may be are questions the state Department of Environmental Conservation and U.S.

Radiation Services WA, a company that provides radiation protection advice, says standing within 1 meter (3.3 feet) of the capsule for an hour would deliver around 1.6 millisieverts (mSv), as much ...