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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 ...

In 1895, when German physics professor Wihelm Röntgen was experimenting with cathode rays, he accidentally discovered what we know today as X-rays. Realizing the technology could benefit the medical ...