NEW BEDFORD — New Bedford is often pitched to tourists for the opportunity to observe its "working waterfront," and with the coming of things like ferry service and now the offshore wind industry on ...

A state-owned nuclear company in China has announced that it is beginning to mass produce a world-first chip that can detect radiation. The announcement adds to the long list of semiconductor related ...

Image: The microdosimeter instrument consists of small sensors connected to an electronics board, shown here without the casing. Spacesuits integrated with this technology can warn astronauts at the ...

Bringing light to the invisible, this spark detector takes advantage of Alpha radiation's tendency to ionize air. Add 6,000 ...

Pocket AVIA/RAD-ALERT warns of solar flare neutrons and radiation and Terrestrial Gamma Bursts, both of which may pose hazard to passengers, crews, and avionics This pocket unit provides real-time ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - As law enforcement gets ready for America’s biggest party on New Year’s Eve, safety is top of mind for every one. Besides having boots on the ground on New Year’s Eve, ...

Scosche’s RDTX is a radiation detector for your iPhone. Seriously, it turns your iPhone into a Geiger counter—you just attach the wand to your iPhone and the RDTX will tell you the radiation levels ...

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to "redouble our efforts to develop technology that can detect radiation and determine the danger it poses, [working] with the maritime ...

Electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength longer than about 700 nanometers won't activate rhodopsin, and IR generated from body heat is around 9,300 nm. In fact, no known protein is activated by ...