An UV Sensor is used for detecting the intensity of incident ultraviolet (UV) radiation – radiation lying in the ultraviolet range, with wave lengths shorter than light but longer than Xrays. UV ...

Those of us who have not been in that position can only imagine the anguish of learning that your teenager has cancer. This happened to [Rob], whose child was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer.

Scientists have developed a fully transparent skin sensor that accurately measures UV radiation, detecting light and ...

Stillwater, OK–Students from OSU’s Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that reached the edge of outer space. Carried by a helium-filled ...

The semiconductor manufacturer ams Osram has presented a new type of plug-and-play sensor module for computer tomography. The highly integrated and robust detector technology can be easily handled via ...

It has now been a year since NASA successfully expanded a habitat attached to the International Space Station, the experimental Bigelow Expandable Activity Module. Initial tests on the module suggest ...

Did you know that radiation was all around us? Or that lost radioactive sources were among the most common types of radiation emergencies? Get the facts about radiation and radiation emergencies by ...