The issue of nuclear radiation has resurfaced in the minds of many people today. The news we hear in the media encourages us to undertake extra checks in the areas where we live. The latest breaking ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 30, 1882, 136 years ago today, and COUNTING ... the day the future physicist Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was born in Germany. Geiger ...

A Tokyo Metropolitan University physicist has proposed using routine synchrotron safety equipment to search for dark photons, particles that may explain dark matter. By combining undulator-generated X ...

One of the most haunting moments in the 2019 hit series, Chernobyl, features liquidators shoveling graphite from the roof of reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the worst ...

Which Geiger counter is best? If you want to monitor radiation levels from a specific source, you need a reliable Geiger counter. This tool can warn you when there is radiation, as well as measure it ...

RECENTLY the recording of coincidences between Geiger counters has become of considerable interest, and several experimental arrangements have been described for this purpose. 1 A common property of ...

DURING the development of the method of coincidence counting for nuclear investigations 1,2, it appeared useful to construct a coincidence counter with a variable electrical resolving time in order to ...

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: September 30, 1882, 136 years ago today, and COUNTING … the day the future physicist Johannes Wilhelm “Hans” Geiger was born in Germany. Geiger ...