In the first post of this series, I described what happens to the human body at ground zero of a 10 to 15-kiloton nuclear ...

Radiation can wreak havoc on the human body when it's exposed to high doses or for prolonged periods of time. The world understood this in horrifying detail after the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi ...

Radiation therapy, once thought of mainly as a local cancer treatment, is now showing power to awaken the immune system in surprising ways. Researchers discovered that combining radiation with ...

SBRT combined with Nexavar improved median OS to 15.8 months versus 12.3 months with Nexavar alone in patients with advanced HCC. Median PFS increased from 5.5 months with Nexavar alone to 9.2 months ...

Radiation is energy that moves from one place to another in a form that can be described as waves or particles. We are exposed to radiation in our everyday life. Some of the most familiar sources of ...

Talk about a powerhouse food. Like anything within its radius, food can also be susceptible to the effects of nuclear contamination, even decades after an event. But one food may actually protect ...

In a YouTube video, WIRED interviewed Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in order to find out more about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a ...

Under the draft proposal, the principle that exposure should be “as low as reasonably achievable” will be replaced with hard ...