The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may soon loosen radiation exposure safety standards at nuclear plants and operations.

A single, targeted high dose of radiation delivered before other treatments could completely eradicate tumors in most women with early-stage, operable hormone-positive breast cancer, according to a ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I ...

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Thanks for a powerful antioxidant, Deinococcus radiodurans can withstand radiation doses 28,000 times greater than what would kill a human. In a new study, scientists discovered how the antioxidant ...

Many radiation biology studies, however, lack adequate reporting of irradiation methodology, which makes replication difficult, according to results of a large-scale systematic review published in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new discovery in space science. The first burst was discovered in ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Of the sources of the radioactivity that batters man, fallout from nuclear weapons testing is the least. At current levels, it is less than 5% of radiation from natural sources. But this is small ...

Gain education and training in radiation sciences, radiation protection, medical applications of radiation, and dosimetry (including laboratory work and clinical internship) with UMass Lowell's ...

A lethal pulse of ultraviolet (UV) radiation may have played a role in Earth's biggest mass extinction event, fossilized pollen grains reveal. Pollen that dates to the time of the Permian-Triassic ...

Big data and data science in oncology have garnered great interest over recent years because of their unique potential contribution toward improving cancer care by aggregating and evaluating numerous ...