We all know the clicking of Geiger counters from movies, and we all know that the faster the counter clicks, the worse things are. But how exactly do they work? There are three types of radiation ...

In the weeks and months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, hackers and computer programmers formed Safecast and started constructing their own, crowdsourced ...

FUKUSHIMA — A Geiger counter isn’t something you ever want to know how to use. It’s definitely not something you want to need. Not that it’s an intimidating piece of equipment – the one ...

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Should I keep my Geiger counter running during dinner? Will its constant clicking keep me up at night? Those are the kinds of questions I’ve been asking myself since my counter, a plastic camera ...

Geiger counters are used to detect and measure levels of radioactivity. Scientists invented the Geiger counter while working on experiments to prove that the center of an atom has a high-density zone, ...

The innards are a Mightyohm Geiger Counter Kit. The external casing is where the true hack lies in this project, made from a 1:2 scale plastic skeleton model, flexible conduit, and dark metallic ...

[Vic] bought a Kvarts DRSB-01 Geiger counter a few years ago, and recently dug it out of his electronics stash. The counter is a run of the mil no-frills unit. It lacks any kind of LCD display and ...

How a Geiger counter helps breast cancer patients By abc7NY Wednesday, April 18, 2012 NEW YORK A /*breast cancer*/ can be so small early on that it can't be felt, only seen on mammography.

Geiger counters are probably ineffective for consumers in detecting hazardous levels of radiation in food and water at home, scientists, professors and device makers said.