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 ...

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 ...

What do bananas, smoke alarms, toilets and large granite buildings have in common? They're all sufficiently radioactive to set off detectors. Efforts since 9/11 to prevent the detonation of a dirty ...

One agency program announced this week that it has now developed and tested wearable cost-effective devices that can detect radiation. Those sensors would be part of the Defense Advanced Research ...

Wireless real-time radiation sensor networks offer the general public and those that work in high radiation areas greater protection against radiation hazards. Combined with real-time localized and ...

In the quest to make a better radiation detector, engineers at DARPA are taking a leaf from crowd-sourcing and have developed one that’s small and cheap, integrates with a smartphone and sends its ...

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 ...

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 ...

A SOLID, capable of detecting as well as measuring the amount of radiation and composed of several easily controlled organic molecules that can be prepared economically, has been devised for ...

A lighthouse is built to shed light on rocky waters, the light turning at the top of a tower to illuminate sections of a dark shoreline that might harm incoming boats. Researchers from Los Alamos ...