Lightweight composite metal foams are effective at blocking harmful radiation, according to a new study carried out by researchers in the US. Indeed, the foams can efficiently block X-rays, gamma rays ...

Sophisticated engineered components from H.C. Starck Solutions allow molecular imaging and nuclear medicine to absorb gamma radiation and X-rays to offer safer diagnostic and therapeutic treatment.

Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays in 1895 was followed by a considerable burst of research: within a single year, approximately 1000 X-ray research papers were published. Yet, the scientists of the time ...

July 2, 2009 (Toronto, Canada) — Intermittent administration of lemon juice can decrease the absorption of radiation for patients with thyroid cancer who are undergoing treatment with iodine-131 ...

A solar eruption that occurred in Oct. 2021 was simultaneously detected here on Earth, on the moon — and even on Mars. By detecting the same coronal mass ejection (CME) on these three different worlds ...