A supposedly stable belt of radiation 7000 km above the Earth’s surface may in fact be producing damaging bursts of ...

Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone ...

Microscopic 'water bears' can survive blasts that would kill humans Drugs that prevent or reverse the effects of ionizing ...

Different species demonstrate different resistances, and one of the most intriguing is some species’ ability to survive huge amounts of ionizing radiation—in some cases, over 1,000 times the ...

The course gives an introduction to imaging modalities based on ionizing radiation, with a focus on medical diagnostics ... the fundamentals of image formation will be given. Selected examples of ...

Radiotherapy, or radiation therapy, is the clinical use of high energy rays (ionizing radiation) to induce DNA damage in all exposed cells to ultimately kill cancer cells or prevent cancer growth.

Radiation therapy has the same cure rate as surgery for prostate cancer that's localized (cancer that's only in the prostate) and locally advanced (cancer that's in the prostate and nearby tissues).

A radiation boost for breast cancer is an extra dose of radiation given after the regular course of radiation is over. It's administered to the spot where a tumor was removed to lower the chances that ...

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Radiation is a part of Canada's environment. We have several measurement programs in place to protect the health of Canadians by continually monitoring natural and man-made radiation levels nationwide ...