A new map has revealed the terrifying spread of radioactive fallout from US nuclear tests, showing the contamination in 46 ...

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on exoplanets.

As temperatures climb and sleeves grow shorter, a familiar ritual returns: slathering on the sunscreen—or perhaps skipping it ...

A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines the ...

The public is tuning out the seemingly slow warming of the world, but it doesn't have to be that way, argue Grace Liu and ...

In a recent breakthrough, Dr. Huo Zhipeng and his student Chen Zuoyang from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the ...

Chest: 7 mSv, equal to about 2 years of background radiation; Lung cancer screening: 1.5 mSv, ... they have more years ahead of them for the effects to show up.

Instantly, 78,000 people were killed, a number that increased to 140,000 by the end of 1945, Reuters has reported, citing the Radiation Effects Research Foundation .

Her and other survivors met in Los Angeles in 2003, to be examined by physicians and researchers from the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. The scientists systematically followed the ...

Equivalent to 2.7 years of natural background radiation. These radiation figures are for adults. Children are more susceptible to the radioactive effects of X-rays.

A group of researchers from China assessed the impact of floating PV systems on the radiation, energy flux, and driving forces on lakes under varying meteorological conditions. It found that the ...