Something that's been irking me a great deal. Reporting of the pollution from a nuclear accident in microSieverts read off a Geiger counter, and then comparing this to CAT scans or background. If ...

I got some Geiger tubes a few days ago and built a very simple Geiger counter circuit that is powered entirely through the microphone jack (microphone connection provides a little power for things ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...

It is a time-honored tradition: buy some cheap piece of gear and rewrite the firmware to make it work better. [Gissio] managed to do just that for a cheap FS2011 Geiger counter. Apparently, the ...

Some U.S. senators are demanding answers from major grocery chains after the FDA flagged imported shrimp for radioactive ...

Apple teamed up with the U.S. government to build a modified iPod that might have been a stealth Geiger counter for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation, claims former Apple software engineer ...

PRESCOTT - The Japanese nuclear plant disaster caused a Prescott-area company to sell out its inventory of Geiger counters. Mineralab owner Tim Flanegin says there's been an overwhelming demand for ...