Outside every National Weather Service (NWS) office around the U.S. stands what looks like an enormous white soccer ball, ...

Germs typically not only get bad press, but have in recent years borne the brunt of Covid-related hygiene with handwash dispensers and signage still a common sight in public spaces.But just as good ...

Production of the WWII atomic bomb was “need to know”, limited to physicists and engineers for security.  The two fission bombs immediately killed about a quarter million Japanese.

The beams of radiation are precisely focused to reach the lesion, with little effect on nearby healthy tissue. The Gamma Knife system is just one ... the head frame insertion sites may be trimmed. The ...

Radiation therapy is a type of cancer treatment. You may also hear it called radiotherapy or therapeutic radiology. Radiation therapy kills cancer cells with beams of high-energy X-rays, gamma rays, ...

While scientists are still debating the excess, one research group has proposed that gamma-ray bursts can be used ... called the Doppler effect (familiar to us from the shift in sound frequencies ...

This study aimed to evaluate the value of tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic methods, including the tuberculin skin test (TST) and interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA ... or in any category that could ...

Paul Zindel's 1971 Pulitzer Prize winning play, “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds” is an exploration of the lives of a dysfunctional family: single mother Beatrice ...

But surprisingly, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light those particles should produce. A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an ...

Gamma rays are weightless, high-energy packets of ... in addition to direct “gamma burns” on the surface of the skin. A long-lasting gamma beam would have similar effects, but on the entire surface ...