Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, ...

Astronomers have identified one of the most distant candidate galaxies known to leak ionizing radiation—the same kind of ...

Astronomers couldn't believe their eyes when they discovered MXDFz4.4: they thought observing such an object, a galaxy from ...

Ionizing radiation is a potent carcinogen, inducing cancer through DNA damage. The signatures of mutations arising in human tissues following in vivo exposure to ionizing radiation have not been ...

If you didn’t know, OSHA is working to help protect employees who are exposed to ionizing radiation as an effect of their job environments. Check out the OSHA ionizing radiation page for information ...

A faraway galaxy has been caught blowing away the cosmic fog of hydrogen that filled the universe once upon a time.

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. The use of ionizing radiation in health care is of ...

Hubble Space Telescope captured ionizing ultraviolet light from galaxy MXDFz4.4, which existed just 1.4 billion years after ...

For the first time, researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have been able to identify in human cancers two characteristic patterns of DNA damage caused by ...

For the first time, researchers have been able to identify in human cancers two characteristic patterns of DNA damage caused by ionizing radiation. These fingerprint patterns may now enable doctors to ...

Most people interpret radiation as a bad thing—but it isn’t always. In fact, radiation is a very normal phenomenon. For now, let’s just say that radiation is when an object produces energy. When a ...

Radiation is everywhere; living on this planet means being exposed to natural radiation. Artificial radiation has been used successfully in the last centuries for medical diagnosis and treatment of ...