The clicking of a Geiger counter is well enough known as a signifier of radioactive materials, due to it providing the menacing sound effect any time a film or TV show deals with radiation. What we’re ...

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There’s perhaps no sound more recognizable than the frantic clicking of a Geiger counter. Not because this is some post-apocalyptic world in which everyone is personally acquainted with the operation ...

Radiation, or electromagnetic waves as it’s sometimes called, exists all around you in the natural environment. In most cases, it’s found in nontoxic amounts that have no lasting effect on the body.