The full chart (below, click to embiggen) may not be to correct scale like the also terrific xkcd radiation dosage chart, but it’s a bit easier to follow. The chart also puts things in terms of ...

External beam radiation therapy (EBRT) delivers radiation from a machine called a linear accelerator. You may get this type of treatment if you have early-stage prostate cancer that hasn’t spread.

Hence the plethora of radiation dosage graphics. We already posted an excellent one, but here is a second, more artful piece, by David McCandless at Information Is Beautiful. It shows the ...

Dive into the wonderful world of electromagnetic radiation–i.e., the energy that travels through space in waves, like x-rays, microwaves and good old visible light.

The photochemical reflectance index (PRI), derived from narrow-band reflectance at 531 and 570 nm, was explored as an indicator of photosynthetic radiation use efficiency for 20 species representing ...