As there are many more amateur than professional astronomers, and many have the kinds of telescopes and CCD cameras needed to measure the fading brilliance of a gamma-ray burst, the odds are that ...

Scientists are testing a new robotic technology to help farmers quickly assess soil health in the United Kingdom.A gamma ray ...

Gamma rays are powerful beams of radiation emitted by the breakdown of the nuclei of radioactive atoms. Scientists use gamma cameras to map processes of organs in the body, creating images from the ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it ...

An isotope emits gamma rays that easily pass through the body to a detector outside the body, for example a ‘gamma camera’. In this way, the radioactive isotope can be followed as it flows ...

Using a gamma camera - special gamma ray detector - these areas can be located. Medical instruments are too expensive to be thrown away once they have been used, so they are washed several times ...