The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

The IAEA has equipped its Rays of Hope Anchor Centres with virtual reality googles, an innovative educational tool in gynaecologic radiotherapy, to further increase the impact of these regional cancer ...

When our planet and the incoming sunlight align just right, stunning phenomena such as rainbows and halos can occur. More ...

Astronomers have employed the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the Neutron Star Interior Composition ...

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has uncovered crucial information about the generation of X-rays in the ...

Electromagnetic radiation is the general term for the more familiar light and radio waves, but also includes gamma rays, x rays, ultraviolet rays, and infrared. All of these forms of electromagnetic ...

Sunscreen is a chemical defense, penetrating the skin and absorbing the UV rays before they reach and damage the skin cells. Sunblock is a physical way to defend against ultraviolet (UV ...

The IAEA built an underground lab to minimize this interference and allow precise measurements. In Monaco, heavily-shielded ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics ...

David Ray Kirkland of Pine Bluff, Arkansas was born September 6, 1951 in Amarillo, Texas the son of the late Thomas Kenneth and Maudie B. Bowden Kirkland. He was a 1969 graduate of Huntsville High ...