The liver is an extremely sensitive organ. It filters blood, eliminates toxins and creates bile to digest food; without a functioning liver, a person will die. Its sensitive nature, however, makes it ...

SEPTEMBER 22nd marks the autumn equinox and, in the northern hemisphere at least, heralds the gloomy six-month period during which the nights will be longer the days. As a result, millions of ...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off, soaring to the sky over Florida on Tuesday, September 23, launching three advanced space weather probes that would be used on a mission to protect ...

Portions of this article were originally published on Feb. 9, 2022. It has been updated with additional information. IDAHO FALLS – If 26-year-old Navy Seabee Richard Legg and Army Specialists John ...

Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley sponsored legislation that reauthorizes RECA and expands it to include Missouri residents sickened by exposure to improperly stored and handled radioactive waste from ...

A SpaceX rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP.

Flying 250 miles overhead, the international space station can be seen with the naked eye, orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes, usually carrying a crew of six. Now, before construction of the station ...

All of us live by the mobile phone. But if we do not wake up to the danbgers of mobile signals and what it does to our health, we may not live with it for too long. Without sending off alarm ...

Radiologic technologists’ annual radiation exposure has been found to be nearly three times that of doctors. Medical radiation tests such as X-rays and CT (computed tomography) scans can cause side ...

One in 10 hematologic cancers among children and adolescents may be attributable to radiation exposure from medical imaging, according to study results.

For patients with intermediate-risk, localized prostate cancer, radiation therapy delivered in five sessions reduced patient-reported side effects compared to longer courses of radiation, according to ...