When we think of radiation, our minds immediately jump to nuclear power plants, X-ray machines or sci-fi movies. The very ...

Atmospheric rivers bring heavy rain and floods, but if they don’t come around, it could mean drought. A new global map ...

Galaxy of enduring brightness: An international team led by Stefanie Komossa of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy studied a galaxy that has been shining exceptionally brightly in radio ...

Newton’s Law of Gravity passes a massive 7-billion-light-year cosmic test, boosting dark matter evidence and Einstein’s gravity theory. For more than 300 years, humanity has trusted one simple idea to ...

When nuclear accidents happen, many people imagine radiation spreading everywhere and lasting forever. The reality is more complex. Radioactive materials move, change and sometimes disappear faster ...

Engineers from UNSW have created a worldwide UV radiation map for solar panels, highlighting major differences in exposure depending on climate and mounting systems. Their new global study has ...

Melilla, a Spanish city on the North African coast, has emerged from 15 years of monitoring as a place with lower natural radiation than Spanish and global averages. That result redraws the city’s ...

ODAKA, Japan (AP) — Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run inn Tomoko Kobayashi operates in her near-deserted ...