This wand helps reach into nooks and crannies for a more accurate reading. However, it can be easily damaged, so make sure it’s durable. Some Geiger counters ... and diarrhea. Long-term exposure ...

A Geiger counter, also known as the Geiger-Muller tube, is an inexpensive and useful instrument used to quickly detect and measure radiation. There are two types of radiation, non-ionizing and ...

One particularly long-lived isotope has a half ... The sun was rising as a teenage boy swung a metal wand back and forth, back and forth. The Geiger counter hanging at his waist clicked ...

Every mad scientist’s lair needs a Geiger counter. After all, if that UFO crashes on the back patio, you might need to know if it is hot. [Tanner_Tech] shows you how to build a cheap one that ...

For about a month I was a danger to others and had to follow a long list of safety rules. My photos — including readings from a Geiger counter — show the weird experience in full. I've been ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 30, 1882, 136 years ago today, and COUNTING ... the day the future physicist Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was born in Germany.

There’s no shortage of Geiger counter projects based on the old Soviet SBM-20 tube, it’s a classic circuit that’s easy enough even for a beginner to implement — so long as they don’t get ...