Brave New World is about to hit cinemas, bringing with it the gamma-ray-powered Red Hulk. Here's what you need to know about ...

Gamma rays are high energy electromagnetic waves which are only stopped by thick lead. This means they can easily pass through medical equipment, such as syringes. As gamma rays pass through the ...

Gamma radiation has created many superpowered individuals in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from rampaging villainous ...

That isn’t the only way to measure gamma radiation, though, and [Alan] has a great circuit to measure even relatively weak radiation sources. It uses a very small photodiode, and draws so little ...

Sources: James Gaidos, (765) 494-5171; e-mail, [email protected] NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: A color photo of the telescope used to detect gamma ray bursts is available from Purdue News Service ...

They used the James Webb Space Telescope to make ... “This event is particularly exciting because some had hypothesized that a luminous gamma-ray burst like the B.O.A.T. could make a lot of ...

For that, you need something like this gamma-ray spectroscope ... The short video below shows the Pomelo in use on samples of radioactive americium and thorium, showing different spectra for ...

Additionally, gamma rays are used in medicine, including in radiotherapy-based cancer treatments. Highly focused beams of radiation can form "gamma knives" for extremely precise radiosurgery.

The isotope used must: be a source of gamma rays so that they pass out through the body to be detected by the gamma camera or GM tube; have very short half-lives - sources used typically have half ...