Most people will tell you Marie Curie discovered radiation, along with her husband and research partner Pierre. And that's right -- sort of. Curie actually discovered the element radium in 1898, an accomplishment that would make her the first female recipient of the Nobel Prize. However, three...
Eventually, doctors and patients started developing radiation sickness, and the medical community knew something was wrong. The problem is that X-rays are a form of ionizing radiation. When normal light hits an atom, it can't change the atom in any significant way. But when an X-ray hits ...
This is the story of how the MIT Rad Lab—formally named the MIT Radiation Laboratory to confuse the Nazis—was charged with using that top-secret British invention to design, build, and field-test advanced radar equipment that would pave the way for the invasion that helped win the war. I...
When my mother received radiation for breast cancer, I saw her breast become hot and blistered. The area that was radiated was also hard as a rock and remained that way for years. Ten years later, when I discovered I had breast cancer, I chose not to get theconventional cancer treatmentm...
That radiation can cause genetic mutation in living organisms was discovered by the US geneticist Hermann Muller (1890–1967). In 1927 he published a paper in Science (66 84) entitled “Artificial Transmutation of the Gene”, his title ambitiously and audaciously invoking the artificial transmutation...
Manjit Fifty to 60% of cancer patients can benefit from radiation therapy for cure or palliation. Pain relief is also critical in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) because by the time tumours are discovered it is often too late to cure them. Radiation therapy typically accounts for ...
Graff Eventually Discovered The Raven Rock Bunker – A City Inside A Mountain Graff began researching the bunkers – the idea behind them, when they were built, what they were intended to do, how extensive they were, and how many existed – and was particularly impressed by Raven Roc...
The speed oflightwas discovered by an amateur in 1676. Its discovery was a huge breakthrough for astronomy, as it allowed us to observe the movements of stars. During that year, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer had a simulated eclipse of the planet Jupiter by observing the lunar moon Io. ...
The earthquake and tsunami also badly damaged a six-reactor nuclear power plant in Fukushima, 150 miles (241 kilometers) north of Tokyo, destroying the backup generators that powered its cooling systems and causing a dangerous release of radiation that forced people in the region to flee. In ...
It also mapped the cosmic microwave background radiation and, in a shocking turn of events, revealed that atoms make up only 4.6 percent of the universe. The rest of the universe is far from empty, however. Dark matter accounts for 23.3 percent of the cosmos, and dark energy fills in ...