Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. What do bananas, smoke alarms, toilets and large granite buildings have in common? They're all sufficiently radioactive ...

Snapshots from space may someday confirm the presence of lakes and oceans on Europa–one of Jupiter’s moons–and on other planetary bodies. Imaging detectors that capture information from every ...

Radiation detection is a key component in a range of fields, from medical imaging to nuclear energy development and ...

A smartphone camera can make you a walking gamma ray detector. Without needing any extra hardware, you could get a warning on your phone when you're approaching potentially harmful levels of gamma ...

ANN ARBOR (WWJ) --A handheld radiation camera developed by University of Michigan engineering researchers that offers nuclear plant operators a faster way to find potentially dangerous hot spots and ...

Each day on Long Island, hundreds of police officers take to the roads to protect New York City from the unthinkable. Wearing portable radiation detectors on their belts, officers in Suffolk and ...

Gamification A new design inspired by Tetris could reduce the cost and boost the accuracy of accurate radiation detectors used for monitoring nuclear sites. (Courtesy: Ella Maru Studio) Inspired by ...

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The Universe contains much better particle accelerators than anything we humans can contrive. While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is capable of sending individual protons to energies of 7 trillion ...

In our Weekly Innovation series, we pick an interesting idea, design or product that you may not have heard of yet. Do you have an innovation to share? Use our form. A smartphone camera can make you a ...