"A lot of the work that's currently being done in this field is looking at alternatives to lead for gamma protection," said Terry Thiem.

Researchers from Skoltech, MEPhI, and the Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation have proposed a new method to create compact gamma-ray sources that are simultaneously brighter, sharper, ...

Far more of the 125,000 atom-bomb casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki than were first reported came from the explosion’s X-ray-like radiations. This fact, which medicine has long suspected, was ...

Gamma-rays are the highest energy (the shortest wavelength) type of electromagnetic radiation. They are classified as a type of an ionising radiation; with respect to alpha and beta particles they ...