At the end of the 19th century, while studying the effects of passing an electrical current through gases at low pressure, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen accidentally discovered X-rays—highly ...

A new chapter in X-ray history has been written over hundreds of miles above our planet. A medical X-ray of a human hand has been taken successfully in space for the first time. The remarkable feat ...

SpaceX's Fram2 astronauts take the first X-ray images of the human body in space, with a tip-of-the-hat to the first X-ray ...

“X-ray beams are used everywhere, but since the discovery of X-rays in 1895, scientists have not been able to use them to ...

WILHELM KONRAD RONTGEN was born on March 27, 1845. The discovery of X-rays was communicated by him to the Physico-Medical Society of Würtzburg in November 1895; a translation of his paper ...

As four space tourists orbited the north and south poles earlier this month and marvelled at the views of Earth, a group of ...

he accidentally discovered what we know today as X-rays. Realizing the technology could benefit the medical field, Röntgen took the first ever X-ray image of the human body. It was an image of ...