Valley Cottage, NY — 04/24/2018 — Nondestructive testing (NDT) is the process of inspecting materials, components and assemblies in order to find discontinuities or differences in their characteristics without damaging the particular system. NDT testing through electric currents or magnetic fields or both to ...

“Meep is a free and open-source software package for simulating electromagnetic systems via the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Meep is an acronym for MIT Electromagnetic Equation Propagation.” A time-domain electromagnetic simulation simply evolves Maxwell's equations over time ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Good fences might make good neighbors, but the same can't be said about cellphone towers. Some parents of students at Kendrick Lakes Elementary School worry a 60-foot-tall cellphone tower going up next door at St. Jude Catholic Church could expose their children to radiation.

At least 31 people died in the accident - including two who were killed at the scene and more who passed away a few months later from Acute Radiation Syndrome. The actual death toll is hard to predict as mortality rates have been hidden by propaganda and reports were lost when the Soviet Union broke ...

Eclipse Photon, the seventeenth annual release of the Eclipse Project, will be released on June 27, 2018, but we're keeping an eye on all the new and noteworthy features in each pre-release milestone. Milestone 6 (M6) offers noteworthy features for the Eclipse Platform, Java Development Tools (JDT), ...

Aerospace engineering firm JJ Churchill, located in Market Bosworth, England, announced that it has reduced its tooling costs by 5% with a 50% reduction in the number of machining operations on a specific critical part. This has been achieved with Blue Photon technology, which is marketed in the UK and ...

MONDAY, April 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- If you have lung or throat cancer, exactly how you are positioned during your radiation treatments may alter your chances of beating the disease. New research suggests that even tiny shifts can mean the radiation may harm organs around tumors in the chest, most notably the ...

A new Allied Health transfer program—a pathway toward the career of Radiation Therapist—begins at Truckee Meadows Community College in Fall Semester, made possible by a partnership between TMCC and the College of Southern Nevada (CSN). For prospective students interested in the program, ...

(KXAS) A recent government study suggests a possible link between cell phone radiation and cancer. In this study, researchers exposed rats to intermittent whole body radiation for nine hours a day, seven days a week for two years. The result: two to three-percent of the rats developed a tumor. A panel that ...

However, the star's bursts of X-ray radiation may still be a factor in the system. Such radiation could hit surface life on a habitable-zone planet hard, although ocean creatures might be safe, the researchers said. The team is still refining its model to understand the emissions' impact on nearby planets.

Two of those companies have ties to an Overland Park radiation oncology clinic. SL Kansas City Leasing, LLC and Sightline Kansas City Holdings, LLC were among the defendants that agreed to pay up to $11.5 million to settle allegations they violated the Anti-Kickback Statute. The companies sublease ...

When enjoying the great outdoors with family and friends, it's sometimes easy to forget sun exposure can not only damage your skin, but your eyes too. Understanding the effects of UV radiation on your eyes is an important step in learning how to protect your eyesight. To keep your eyes healthy, use these ...

In this study, researchers exposed rats to intermittent whole body radiation for nine hours a day, seven days a week for two years. The result was two to three-percent of the rats developed a tumor. A panel that reviewed the study said the evidence indicates a greater risk than originally thought. Still, some ...

(A) Collagen matrices are prepared inside transwell containers, where one set is treated with clinical doses of radiation. (B) Cancer cell are then seeded on the collagen and allowed to adhere, spread and invade through the matrix. (C) Confocal imaging reveals that the cancer cells seeded on the irradiated ...

European Commission hosted a conference on Addressing Societal Challenges Through Advancing the Medical, Industrial and Research Applications of Nuclear and Radiation Technology. The conference sought to identify cross-cutting actions that the European Commission, EU countries and other ...

The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee also cheered on the photon, which it uses to answer fundamental bio-molecular questions in partnership with the BioXFEL Science and Technology Center. David J. Gillcrist pointed out that photons carry the electromagnetic force that allows electrons to interact.

A new study shows that higher doses of radiation do not improve survival for many patients with prostate cancer, compared with the standard radiation treatment. The analysis, which included 104 radiation therapy oncology groups across North America, was led by researchers at Washington University ...

Radiation in physics is defined as the emission or transmission of energy in the form of a wave or a particle. This means all the light in the universe is radiation, technically known as electromagnetic radiation. The particles thrown into space by stars are also radiation. Same goes for the particles released in ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk can't wait to bring people — and probably, regrettably, brands — to Mars. But unless he starts taking space radiation seriously, Musk's Martian bachelor pad will more closely resemble a barren litter box. A physicist tells Inverse the problem of radiation on Mars is more dire than ...

Understanding the nature of radiation damage in materials is of paramount importance for controlling the safety of nuclear reactors, semiconductor technology, and designing reliable devices in space. For more than 60 years, the standard approach to estimating the radiation damage in materials ...

Space has many ways to kill you. One stand-out among the menu of options: radiation, the constant stream of charged particles ricocheting through space at incredible speeds. There's radiation trapped directly around Earth, and the particles are also produced by our own sun and by stellar explosions.

The ability to steer the flow of light toward desired propagation directions is critically important for the realization of key functionalities in optical communication and information processing. Although various schemes have been proposed for this purpose, the lack of capability to incorporate an external ...

Dose-escalated radiation therapy did not improve OS among men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer despite improvements in distant metastases and biochemical control, according to study results. "Prior to the availability of modern radiation therapy techniques such as 3-dimensional conformal ...

It might sound like something from a science fiction plot -- astronauts traveling into deep space being bombarded by cosmic rays -- but radiation exposure is science fact. As future missions look to travel back to the moon or even to Mars, new research from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science ...

Belgian pharmacies will now provide radiation-busting iodine tablets free-of-charge to anyone as part of the country's new nuclear strategy, while Benelux partner Luxembourg has come out fighting against atom-smashing. Belgium's Interior Minister Jan Jambon confirmed that iodine tablets, which counter ...

Misconceptions and fears that many breast cancer patients facing radiation therapy have are typically not realized because of modern techniques, researchers report. Indeed, an overwhelming majority of patients surveyed for this study — comparing pretreatment beliefs with experiences — agreed that ...

It's still a mystery as to what sickened former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter on Sunday (March 4) at a shopping mall outside London, but several clues point toward poison, toxicology experts told Live Science. It's unlikely that radiation, harmful bacteria or a virus caused the Skripals to become ...

These materials can be used to coat military equipment of radars and to protect high-tech devices from electromagnetic radiation. In addition, these microspheres can be used in hydrogen energetics and medicine: for delivering drugs and treating blood clotting disorders. "Magnetite microspheres (Fe3O4) ...

A gradual lessening of fears about the effects of radiation from the 2011 nuclear disaster reversed itself slightly as the seventh anniversary of the accident looms. A joint survey by The Asahi Shimbun and Fukushima Broadcasting Co. found that 66 percent of Fukushima Prefecture residents still feel anxiety ...

These techniques, known as far-field energy transfer, or power beaming, use two antennas, one of which sends energy in the form of electromagnetic waves to the other, which then converts radiation into electric currents. The transmitting antenna cannot be substantially improved, because it basically just ...

Studies have shown that while there is some statistical link between exposure to cellphone radiation and incidence of cancer, that link doesn't transfer to the ... A new wave of 5G cell sites will dramatically change the electromagnetic radiation map of the US, and some people think it will be for the worse.

Since its discovery in 2016, the exoplanet Proxima b has been one of our most promising candidates for extraterrestrial life. Recent news that a powerful solar flare blasted the planet with radiation in March 2017 may have dashed those hopes of habitability.

That includes how relevant the findings are to newer wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and WiFi that have become widespread since the study was designed in the early 2000s. Like cell phones, routers use radio frequency (RF) energy—a form of electromagnetic radiation—to bring wireless internet ...