The U.K. Health Protection Agency estimates the typical Briton receives about 2,200 microsieverts of radiation per year from background radiation, or about 0.251 microsieverts per hour — more than ...

Surprisingly, exposure to a high background radiation might actually lead to clear beneficial health effects in humans, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Nuclear Research Center ...

The study, led by Bevin Engelward and Jacquelyn Yanch and published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that when mice were exposed to radiation doses about 400 times greater than ...

Higher background radiation levels were also linked to a life expectancy about 2.5 years longer than those living in areas with relatively low levels. Higher background radiation levels lead to lower ...

New findings demonstrate that there are small effects of radiation even at very low doses. New findings demonstrate that there are small effects of radiation even at very low doses. A small but ...