Since the early 20th century, gemological laboratories have been using film-based microradiography to reveal minute structures that separate natural from cultured pearls, sometimes alongside other ...

Brits are pining for the days of cassette tapes, film cameras, and vintage MP3 players, according to a survey of 2,000 adults. The poll revealed a yearning for the comeback of corded landline phones, ...

It’s amazing how quickly medical science made radiography one of its main diagnostic tools. Medicine had barely emerged from its Dark Age of bloodletting and the four humours when X-rays were ...

We asked experts if regular exposure to low levels of radiation could be harmful to health. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Melinda Wenner Moyer Q: It seems as if every time ...

Cassette players have lived in obscurity for the better part of the last two decades. Recently though, at least in the UK and US, they’ve been making a comeback, riding on nostalgia and a fascination ...

Lead aprons and other lead shields provide “no additional benefit to the patient except for some psychological comfort,” said Mahadevappa Mahesh, a professor of radiology and cardiology at Johns ...

Movie awards season is intense, crazy and exhausting -- especially for film critics. With multiple ceremonies taking place -- all leading up to the Academy Awards -- studios are working hard to get ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play on the ...