Science news articles about 's rays'

(AP) -- Sales of Blu-ray disc players haven't been helped by maker Toshiba's capitulation over producing the rival HD DVD format, research firm NPD Group said Wednesday.

... evidence of an animal using ultraviolet B (UVB) rays to communicate with other members of its species. In a series of mate ...

(AP) -- Rocker Neil Young plans to release his entire music archive on Blu-ray discs, a sign that the discs' capabilities are building appeal among musicians as well as movie studios.

... —to capture, archive and share digital x-ray images from more than one million priceless specimens and artifacts ... by the museum’s staff. “The availability of this advanced x-ray system will have tremendous benefits not only for research, but also for management ...

X-rays – they’re not just for doctors’ offices and airport security anymore. At least, not for British ...

... without the ionizing damage caused by X-rays. The technology could be used to detect skin cancer or image ...

... in developing countries often need to have X-ray examinations repeated so that doctors have the image ...

... AP) -- Blu-ray stomped HD DVD to become the standard format for high-definition ... one look at the $399 price tag of a Blu-ray player at a Best Buy store in Glendale ...

... without the ionizing damage caused by X-rays. The technology could be used to detect skin cancer or image ...

... about dark matter, black holes, and gamma-ray bursts. Scientists expect the orbiting telescope to detect thousands of hitherto unknown gamma-ray sources. With its extraordinary sensitivity and wide field ...

... the next generation of space-based gamma-ray detectors. If all goes as planned, GLAST--for Gamma ... -ups the cosmos has to offer.You may think of gamma rays as tools for scorching tumors or maybe as the stuff ...

... and Jefferson Laboratory are showing how to use the brightest X-ray light ever generated for the scientific examination ... --than current state-of-the-art synchrotron X-ray sources. "We're closer than ever to building ...

A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips.

NASA launched a telescope Wednesday to scout out elusive, super high-energy gamma rays lurking in the universe.

Gamma rays are blamed for making Bruce Banner the Incredible Hulk. But what are gamma rays and what can they really do?