Alpha radiation poses unique challenges for environmental monitoring due to the very short range of alpha particles in air, typically only a few centimetres. Remote detection strategies therefore rely ...

Shares of Alpha Tau Medical rose Wednesday after it said it will collaborate with Tolmar International to bring localized alpha radiation cancer therapy to prostate cancer patients in the United ...

In the middle of the 20th century, the atom was all the rage. Radiation was the shiny new solution to everything while being similarly poorly understood by the general public and a great deal of those ...

If you want to measure radioactivity, nothing really beats a Geiger counter: compact, rugged, and reasonably easy to use, they’re by far the most commonly used tool to detect ionizing radiation.

When I was getting my undergraduate degree at University of Colorado in 2012, I took a general chemistry course. Much to the chagrin of my professor, I’m sure, I remember very little of the class ...

Well, two out of three ain't bad. The levels of X-ray radiation streaming from Alpha Centauri A and B — two of the three stars in the nearest solar system to our own — are comparable to those emitted ...

The search for habitable exoplanets spans far and wide, pushing the limits of what our modern telescopes are capable of. But rest assured that we aren’t ignoring what’s in our own backyard.