Are there any dangers associated with receiving an MRI and how exactly does an MRI work? Is it safe? Medical imaging, specifically magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has come so far that we can create high resolution images of the entire...

NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission launches in September 2016 and plans to return a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023. This video profiles a student-built instrument aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft called REXIS - the Regolith X-Ray...

Chemists at the University of Iowa, led by associate professor Tori Forbes, are using National Science Foundation funding to investigate how to remove radioactive substances from water. Forbes' team creates and tests various chemical...

X-Rays are part of the electromagnetic spectrum and have a wavelength of about the diameter of an atom. Because of this small wavelength they are able to penetrate healthy tissue but are absorbed by denser material like bone and metal....