Although they’ve been on the shelves of many online retailers for quite a few years now, Geiger-Tubes have been conspicuously absent from hobby electronics magazines/websites. It has to be said that ...

One of the most haunting moments in the 2019 hit series, Chernobyl, features liquidators shoveling graphite from the roof of reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the worst ...

Hackaday Editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams get caught up on the most interesting hacks of the past week. On this episode we take a deep dive into radiation-monitor projects, both Geiger tube and ...

I got some Geiger tubes a few days ago and built a very simple Geiger counter circuit that is powered entirely through the microphone jack (microphone connection provides a little power for things ...

Geiger counters can identify radioactive emissions, typically beta particles and gamma rays, and can be used to quantify the radiation a material releases or the radiation absorbed by a human or ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Geiger counters are used to detect and measure levels of radioactivity. Scientists invented the ...

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 ...