It’s not just ionizing radiation that causes direct damage to biological macromolecules. As anyone who has ever had a sunburn knows, ultraviolet light can cause quite a lot of damage too.

Cosmic rays may be enough to nourish exterrestrial life residing underground in our solar system offering to broaden the ...

Radiation, whether in the form of high-energy particles or electromagnetic waves, is conventionally known to break our cellular DNA, leading to cancer and genetic disorders.

Ionizing radiation can affect living tissue and DNA, so it poses a risk to people and other living things. Objects such as x-ray machines, cosmic particles from space, and radioactive elements all ...

Studying a species of microscopic worms exposed to high radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, researchers couldn’t find signs of genetic damage caused by the exposure. The findings are set ...

Ionizing radiation is a type of radiation of such energy that it can detach electrons from atoms or molecules, which causes changes at the atomic level when interacting with matter including living ...