With today's data rates of only a few hundred megabytes per second, access to digital information remains relatively slow.

Using an infrared pulsed carbon dioxide laser, project leader Howard Milchberg and his team showed that they could detect low ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE physics students studying irradiation, contamination, the effects of radiation on the human body and background radiation. If you struggled with ...

BL Lacertae blazar shifts between classifications faster than expected. It shows record X-ray activity and challenges current ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

Detecting radiation is a fundamental necessity for national security, but doing so effectively and at a distance is a tall order. A new technique pioneered by scientists at the University of Maryland ...

Blazars are active galaxies that emit narrow jets of ionized matter from their centers, aimed towards Earth. Depending on ...