Bdelloid rotifers shrug off radiation doses that would obliterate human cells. Here’s how their resilience reveals deep ...

Hardy bacteria could survive the trip from one planet to another, hidden among the debris from an asteroid impact, a new ...

A fungus that evolved at Chernobyl and is now grown on the ISS, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, slightly reduced radiation levels.

The arterial vasculature is the second most frequently calcified structure in the human body after the skeleton. Calcification of the aorta and aortic valves occurs in most individuals in westernized ...

Sun Nuclear, a Mirion Medical company, today opened the QA & Dosimetry Symposium (QADS), taking place over the next two days in Rome, Italy. The 15th installment brings together more than 230 clinical ...

Sen. Lynda Schlegel Culver, R-Shamokin Dam, is pictured during a committee meeting. A pair of state lawmakers are renewing efforts for state-required licensing of medical imaging technicians in ...

The linear no-threshold (LNT) model and the ALARA principle have served as the conceptual and operational foundations of the global radiation protection framework for many decades. The LNT model is a ...

Get an x-ray, and you get a small dose of radiation to visualize your bones and body structures to help you medically. Buy a smoke detector, you’re inviting a tiny source of radiation, americium-241, ...

There is a large literature on epidemiological studies of radiation workers, with hundreds of studies published over the past century, dating back to the first studies of radiologists (1). More recent ...

This dark discovery is breaking the mold. Scientists have discovered an unlikely ally in the battle to clean up Chernobyl’s radiation zones — the black mold that thrives in them. A research team found ...

WASHINGTON — A coalition of Navy veterans is seeking an expansion of health care and disability benefits for toxic exposures linked to gases, chemicals and biological contaminants aboard submarines.