The method developed by Juho Karhu in his PhD thesis work at the University Helsinki, is a first step towards creating a precise measuring device. The article by doctoral researcher Juho Karhu was ...

What do the Curie couple, Henrie Becquerel, Louis Harold Gray, and Ralf Sievert have in common? These radiation pioneers defined the way we measure ionizing radiation. Pierre and Marie Curie created ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have unveiled a groundbreaking method for rapidly detecting and measuring radioactivity in minuscule samples. The technique, ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...

What is dark matter? What are neutrinos all about? How do stars work and what was actually going on in the universe in the first minutes after the Big Bang? To answer these questions, you need very ...

Researchers have made a first step towards creating a precise measuring device for radioactive methane. The method developed by Juho Karhu in his PhD thesis work at the University Helsinki, is a first ...