A new way to assess radiation damage in reactors
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Catastrophic solar storms may not explain shadows of radiation in trees
A cryptic chemical signature of unknown origins, hidden for centuries inside the trunks of Earth’s trees, just became even more mysterious.
In the last decade, scientists have…
Ukraine’s Biggest Nuclear Plant Needs a Safety Zone
Until Ukraine and Russia reach an agreement, the plant remains in danger. “There’s no question: There should not be any military operations at the plant or in the vicinity of the plant,”…
Gel-like, radioactive tumor implant obliterates pancreatic cancer in mice: Combination of internal…
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated the most effective treatment for pancreatic cancer ever recorded in mouse models. While most mouse trials consider simply halting…
How Iodine Pills Can—and Can’t—Help Against Radiation
As unease about Russia's nuclear saber-rattling grows, along with concerns about the safety of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, officials in Kyiv are distributing iodine pills to…
New technique protects data on solid-state drives from radiation
Dr. Biswajit Ray, right, with students (from left) Matchima Buddhanoy, Sijay Huang, Umeshwarnath Surendranathan and…
Radiation for responsible recycling: A distributed, microwave-based method to recycle batteries
Distributed recycling system with microwave-based heating for obsolete alkaline batteries. Credit: Ritsumeikan…
Study identifies receptor that could alleviate need for chemo, radiation pre-T cell therapy
Before a patient can undergo T cell therapy designed to target cancerous tumors, the patient's entire immune system must be destroyed with chemotherapy or radiation. The toxic side effects…
Hardspace: Shipbreaker – How To Survive Radiation, Depressurization, And Other Hazards
Shipbreaking in Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a dangerous job, and it doesn’t help that these spacecraft seem to have been made with some questionable safety protocol. Reactors,…
The sun’s searing radiation led to the shuffling of the solar system’s planets
In the solar system’s early years, the still-forming giant planets sidestepped, did a do-si-do and then swung one of their partners away from the sun’s gravitational grasp. Things…