Observations of a pulsar, consisting of a dead star spinning 600 times a second, and feasting on a stellar companion reveal ...

The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is now using X-ray body-scanning technology to prevent the smuggling of drugs and other ...

Dylan Ray, the former student body president at the College of Southern Idaho, will serve five concurrent sentences of up to ...

Hollow atoms are special atoms with multiple missing electrons in their inner shells, while their outer shells are still ...

A flexible fabric called X-Wear could replace some parts of medical scanners, which would make taking X-rays and CT scans far more comfortable and convenient ...

The mystery surrounding a strange cosmic object, or 'long-period transient,' has deepened. This object is bursting with X-rays, and astronomers describe it as unlike anything seen before.

Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers have characterized the closest supernova linked to a fast X-ray transient. The ...

MCSO has started using new X-ray body scanners to detect contraband so officers don't have to do invasive searches.

Medical professionals commonly use scans to help diagnose medical conditions. Learn more about different types of scans, like X-rays, CT, and MRIs here.

The X-ray machine will send a beam of ionizing radiation through an X-ray tube. This energy passes through the part of the body being X-rayed and is then absorbed on film or a digital camera to ...

A man was left in horror after an X-ray revealed his body was riddled with tapeworm eggs. The image shows hundreds of 'rice grain' nodules that turned out to be cysts caused by the parasitic ...

Now, let’s take a closer look at X-rays. This technology has been around much longer than MRI. It dates back to the late 1800s. For quite some time, it was the only non-invasive way for doctors to ...