Doses are low on individual flights, but additional research is needed to understand health impacts from exposure.

Frequent flyers and airline crews face a higher risk of radiation exposure from the sun. The risk is greatest on flights at high altitudes, over the poles or during solar events. Radiation exposure ...

Working alongside Poepping, physics and astronomy professor Eugene Wong studies how humans, organs, tissues and cells respond to radiotherapy. Exposing these organs and organoids-on-chip to radiation ...

During flights, airplane crews are exposed to cosmic radiation, yet regulatory protections for these workers are insufficient ...

It did not take long after the discovery of X-rays in the 1890s for scientists to begin exploring the harmful effects of radiation on living organisms. Yet even after more than a century of research, ...

Nine months have passed since the law that compensates US victims of radiation exposure expired in June, and yet another opportunity to reinstate it fell to the wayside last week. The Radiation ...

WASHINGTON, DC—A comprehensive radiation shield can cut radiation exposure to primary operators during coronary and structural heart procedures by more than 99% when used in combination with standard ...

Lead glasses play a key role in shielding the eyes from X-ray scatter in dental and medical settings. Designed with specialized leaded lenses, these X-ray glasses help minimize the cumulative ...