Many people enjoy eating bananas because they’re a tasty fruit that’s rich in nutrients. Bananas, like many common foods, do contain some natural radiation. But all of our sources say that eating, ...

Natural resources that are extracted from the ground such as coal, oil, natural gas and other mineral ores contain various amounts of natural radioactivity. When these resources are extracted and ...

Quantum computers consist of superconducting quantum bits, or "qubits," that take the place of the conventional bits in today's digital computers. Scientists suspected that naturally occurring ...

Many industries processing naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) follow a common cycle with several stages from the extraction of materials to the fabrication and the use of products and ...

What do granite and bananas have in common? Radioactivity. As it turns out, radioactivity is all around us and has been for eons. About 25 years ago, I was doing radiation surveys at a NASA research ...

Coloradans are subjected to, on average, four times more naturally occurring radiation than the average American. It is the price of living in a mountainous and geologically rich region, but the full ...