KOTA KINABALU: The government is planning to install the gamma spectrum water monitoring system in Langkawi, Johor, Pahang and Sandakan, Sabah to monitor radioactivity levels in Malaysian waters, says ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected breakdown of nuclear order in a remarkably symmetric atom, challenging long-standing ...

Chinese scientists from the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) made a remarkable discovery of a gamma-ray spectrum line with an energy of up to 37 million electron volts. The finding of this ...

Scientists have discovered an indicator of when re-ionization of the primordial Universe began. The team used the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope 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 ...

At first glance, it may seem paradoxical to search for dark matter with telescopes. Usually, these instruments measure light, for example radio waves, infrared radiation or optical light. Dark matter ...

Stars, galaxies, quasars, and many other objects contribute to the fog of radiation in the universe. It permeates all of intergalactic space; it is the "leftover" light that all these objects emit.

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