Mumbai: In a major step to boost radiation research, a cutting-edge Gamma Irradiation Chamber (GIC) 5000, Cobalt-60, has recently been inaugurated at the Department of Biophysics of Mumbai University.

Biomolecules will protect healthy tissues during radiation therapy Nanoparticles that protect healthy cells from death during radiation therapy of cancerous tumors have been synthesized by scientists ...

Some airport body scanning machines use X-rays to generate images. How much radiation is a traveler exposed to? Should frequent fliers opt for a pat down instead? Radiation expert David Brenner ...

A sensitive new technique for monitoring the heating of the head caused by mobile phones could be used to account for the effects of radiation on intricate structures such as the eye and the inner ear ...

Japan's defense ministry now says it has decided against dumping water from helicopters onto the most badly damaged reactors at a nuclear plant, because radiation levels are too high. It would have ...

A US$30 million animal model study into the effects of radiofrequency radiation (RFR), similar to that used in 2G and 3G networks, has come to some pertinent conclusions. A study into radiofrequency ...

The nation’s civilian unemployment rate fell to 7.1 percent in November from 7.4 percent the previous month as the number of Americans with jobs increased to a record 105.9 million. The ranks of the ...

PAMPLONA, Spain. Scientists at the University of Navarra have developed a first-of-its-kind method to quantify how much radiation blood absorbs during cancer treatment accurately. This breakthrough ...

Professor Marco Durante, Head of the Biophysics Department at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and Professor at the Department of Physics at TU Darmstadt, Institute of Condensed Matter ...

Problems at three nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, have led to news reports that range from reassuring to terrifying. But experts on nuclear accidents say there's plenty of cause for concern, not ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with unilateral breast cancer and ATM mutations who received radiation were at increased risk for ...