Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An earlier version of SpaceTED, seen here, was installed on the International Space Station in 2018 but was damaged accidentally ...

STILLWATER, Okla. — Dr. Eric Benton and Ph.D. student Tristen Lee from Oklahoma State University's Department of Physics received news their radiation detector was safely installed on the ...

We all know that stars radiate light and much more. But radiation belts can also surround many other celestial bodies, such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Advances in radiotherapy involve combining new technologies with clinical expertise. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty ...

Held annually on 7 November – on the birthday of the world’s first medical physicist, Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie – the International Day of Medical Physics raises awareness of the field’s ...

A black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing. Using a chain of atoms in single file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole ...

Aliyah Welker ’22 had never heard of health physics when she started at UMass Lowell. Neither had Cassia Fontes ’22, ’23. Yet the two former classmates, who chose the radiological health physics ...

Radiation therapy is one of the most effective treatments for many kinds of cancer, helping to destroy tumours and save lives. Because these treatments use high‑energy radiation directed at specific ...

We’ve searched the skies for alien signals in the form of radio waves and reflected light from massive orbiting structures. But physicists Gia Dvali (of the Max Planck Institute for Physics) and Zara ...

The persistence of a pair of Oklahoma State University scientists to ensure the successful installation of a working radiator detector on the International Space Station paid off last month. Eric ...