What’s going on with this silent threat that can stealthily damage your body in ways that can take years to reveal themselves ...

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations: Designing experiments to measure radioactive decay and the effects of radiation. (Example: Conducting experiments to observe how distance and shielding ...

Scientists determine the age of objects by analyzing growth patterns, radioactive decay, stellar evolution, and cosmic ...

An artistic impression of a neutron star that is 'evaporating' slowly via Hawking-like radiation. According to a study slated to be published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, the ...

In this lesson, students will simulate the randomness of decay in radioactive atoms and visualize the half-life of a sample radioactive element. This lesson can be completed in two (2) 45-minute class ...

Most people interpret radiation as a bad thing—but it isn’t always. In fact, radiation is a very normal phenomenon. For now, let’s just say that radiation is when an object produces energy. When a ...

Sarah Loughran receives funding from The National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC). She is the Director of Radiation Research and Advice at the Australian Radiation Protection ...