If you’re a radiation enthusiast, chances are you’ve got a Geiger counter lying around somewhere. While Geiger counters are useful to detect the amount of radiation present, and with a few tricks can ...

The collision of two lightning-bolts-in-the-making spawned an exceedingly brief but extremely energetic flash of gamma rays. This first-of-its-kind observation may help explain an origin of some of ...

The LHAASO observatory has detected gamma rays above 100 TeV from a gamma-ray binary for the first time, challenging current ...

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Industrial Scientific has upgraded the Radius BZ1 Area Monitor by adding gamma radiation detection, enabling fire departments ...

Back in October of 2022, astronomers around the world were baffled and awed by the largest gamma-radiation burst we've ever recorded. The burst was so powerful, in fact, that it has been nicknamed the ...

NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope discovered a very unusual radiation blast from a dying star back on August 26, 2020. The involved group of astronomers, including space experts from India, ...

Firefighters and hazmat teams don’t operate in predictable environments. Conditions can change rapidly, visibility is limited ...

The nuclei of certain atoms are stable and under ordinary circumstances, stable nuclei do not undergo change. The nuclei of other atoms are unstable. These nuclei undergo change spontaneously, that is ...