A Caltech-led team has developed a safe, effective, and painless breast imaging technique that incorporates machine learning ...

In radiation therapy, precision can save lives. Oncologists must carefully map the size and location of a tumor before ...

Ionizing radiation was discovered by accident. Before digital smartphones, when people took pictures on film, the basic idea of photography was that when film was exposed to light, it would cause ...

The cell’s response to repair such breaks results in the formation of ionising-radiation-induced (repair) foci (IRIFs), which can be detected using immunofluorescence microscopy images.

In a wide-ranging conversation with Physics World’s Tami Freeman, Patallo and McLauchlan explain how ionizing radiation such as X-rays and proton beams interact with our bodies and how radiation is ...

CT scans use ionizing radiation to create cross-sectional pictures inside the body. The scans can reveal more detail than conventional X-rays and are accurate, quick and relatively inexpensive ...

STUDIES of the biologic effects of ionizing radiation began very shortly after Roentgen's discovery of the x-ray in December, 1895. The special characteristics of this radiation, which differentiat ...

Tardigrades were exposed to heavy doses of gamma rays—high-energy photons that are one form of ionizing radiation—and researchers then studied how their systems responded.

Pictures of frogs from the study having evolved progressively darker (left) and a stock image of a radioactive symbol at Chernobyl (right). A study has found that Chernobyl's nuclear radiation has ...

Terahertz waves, known as non-ionizing radiation, can turn into ionization radiation when sufficiently many terahertz photons are focused in space and time. A team led by scientists in Korea and ...

The AR visualises ionising radiation (Image: ORNL) At ORNL, the licensed methods were originally used to create the virtual interaction with physics-enhanced reality, or VIPER, application. Using ...

Ionizing radiation removes electrons from atoms. This results in reactive molecules called free radicals , which are unstable, and in large enough numbers, can damage DNA, proteins and cells .