After a walkover survey found slightly elevated levels of gamma radiation in portions of the Albany Bulb, a former landfill ...

Gamma rays are created throughout the universe in violent explosions. On Earth, they originate from the decay of radioactive elements and within particle accelerators, which are devices that smash ...

Observations from high-flying aircraft revealed that thunderclouds act as natural particle accelerators, emitting energetic ...

In a new breakthrough, a team of physicists from the U.S. has successfully demonstrated a new way to detect radioactive materials using ... techniques to identify gamma-ray radiation sources ...

The database helps improve the quality and quantity of data to make possible the reliable application of prompt-gamma activation analysis (PGAA) in such fields as materials science ... of complicated ...

We think of radioactive material ... slows down it can produce X-rays or gamma rays. The saving grace, according to [lenslegend], is the amount of material is small and so is the radiation.

All types of radiation become less intense as they travel further away from the radioactive material ... Alpha, beta and gamma radiations penetrate materials in different ways.