Radiation-hardened (rad-hard) components, modules, and systems are getting a lot of attention lately, with good reason. The proliferation of low, medium, geostationary Earth orbit (LEO, MEO, and GEO) ...

Scientists at CERN are trialling a new type of robot that identify potential radiation leakages in environments challenging to navigate both for humans and other robots employed at the research centre ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is tough on electronics. Situated inside a 17-mile-long tunnel that runs in a circle under the border between Switzerland and France, this massive scientific instrument ...

The robot's quadruped locomotion helps it look for hazards in cramped and cluttered experiment spaces inaccessible to other robots. By Mack DeGeurin Published Feb 8, 2024 3:00 PM EST Get the Popular ...

British physicist Martin Rees has suggested that CERN’s Large Hadron Collider could potentially destroy Earth. However, this is not the case. Nor will the accelerator ...

A radiation detector tested aboard the International Space Station performed so well that Polish startup SigmaLabs has joined work on dosimeters for NASA’s Artemis lunar program and is developing a ...