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A state-owned nuclear company in China has announced that it is beginning to mass produce a world-first chip that can detect radiation. The announcement adds to the long list of semiconductor related ...

An Ontario defence and aerospace company has been tasked with developing a tool to detect harmful space radiation for astronauts on the International Space Station. The technology ...

Image: The microdosimeter instrument consists of small sensors connected to an electronics board, shown here without the casing. Spacesuits integrated with this technology can warn astronauts at the ...

A multi-institutional team of physicists and engineers has developed a laser-based radiation detection system that operates ...

A new material uses its organic part to produce faster and stronger light under radiation, helping improve speed and efficiency in radiation detectors.

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma have developed new hybrid materials that challenge conventional thinking about how ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) When a patient receives radiation therapy for cancer treatment, doctors must carefully control the radiation dose to target tumor cells while sparing healthy tissue. This requires ...

Scosche’s RDTX is a radiation detector for your iPhone. Seriously, it turns your iPhone into a Geiger counter—you just attach the wand to your iPhone and the RDTX will tell you the radiation levels ...

NEW BEDFORD — New Bedford is often pitched to tourists for the opportunity to observe its "working waterfront," and with the coming of things like ferry service and now the offshore wind industry on ...