By Andrew W Wood, Swinburne University of Technology
Visible light forms part of the electromagnetic spectrum. So do emissions from TV and radio transmitters, mobile phones and the energy inside microwave ovens.
The X-rays used in diagnostic imaging and…
The collision of art and science is producing some impressive results.
CSIRO, Australian Synchrotron and National Gallery of Victoria
The ability to see through walls and other objects Superman-style is surely high on the wish-list for many children.
Sadly, with the purchase of a child’s first pair of novelty X-ray glasses, such dreams…
New therapies that haven’t yet been clinically proven may still be used ethically under certain circumstances.
Juraj Kubica
TRANSPARENCY AND MEDICINE – A series examining issues from ethics to the evidence in evidence-based medicine, the influence of medical journals to the role of Big Pharma in our present and future health…
The AFP is using wrist x-rays to determine whether refugee boat crew members should face a 5-year jail term.
AAP
The current Australian Federal Police practice of using X-rays of the hand/wrist to assess the age of Indonesian crew members of boats bringing refugees to Australia is based on a method developed in the…
