The July 15 public television show "Need-to-Know contains Japan's "funniest" home video. The Japanese are trying to reduce their exposure to radiation to LESS THAN THE NATURAL BACKGROUND! There is ...

A new map offers a new perspective on the city, revealing the steady, ever-present natural radiation emerging from the ground ...

Doing calculations with a quantum computer is a race against time, thanks to the fragility of the quantum states at their heart. And new research suggests we may soon hit a wall in how long we can ...

Genetic risk due to high natural background radiation is "a lot less than one has imagined earlier," according to a study just reported by researchers at the National Institute of Immunology (NII) in ...

In recent years, aircraft have become increasingly digitalized, with flight controls and instruments being controlled by electronic devices. However, as the altitude increases, the effects of natural ...

The sum of the natural background radiation at Fukushima plus the radiation leak from the reactor are less than the natural background radiation where I live in Illinois. There was no reason for Japan ...

Surprisingly, exposure to a high background radiation might actually lead to clear beneficial health effects in humans, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Nuclear Research Center ...