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Science & Tech News tagged with radiation

Radiation Leak at Three Mile Island
Science & Tech  (tags: radiation, nuclear power, news, health, pennsylvania )

Panthera
- 5 days ago - abclocal.go.com
Approximately 20 workers were treated for radiation exposure after a radiation leak inside the containment building at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon. It is believed no radiation escaped the building.
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New Guide to Cell Phone Radiation
Science & Tech  (tags: study, cellphones, radiation, science, technology, safety, research, investigation )

Cal
- 72 days ago - enn.com
Cell phones are here to stay, there's no doubt about that. But there are mounting concerns about the adverse health affects from radiation emitted from your cell phone.
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Mobile Phones Affect Memory In Laboratory Animals, Swedish Study Finds
Science & Tech  (tags: cell phones, radiation, animaltests, anials, memory loss, investigation, humans )

Pirjo
- 356 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Can radiation from cell phones affect the memory? Yes -- at least it appears to do so in rat experiments conducted at the Division of Neurosurgery, Lund University
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Flash Before The Flood
Science & Tech  (tags: radiation, measure, thunderstorm, research )

Ingrid
- 368 days ago - terradaily.com
Flash floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States, and because of their unpredictability they're the leading weather-related cause of death for Americans.
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First Animals Survive Space Vacuum
Science & Tech  (tags: water bear, vacuum, space, radiation, space research )

Eduardo
- 416 days ago - scientificcomputing.com
Tardigrades, or water bears, are the first animals to have survived exposure to the vacuum and radiation of space. A researcher at Kristianstad University in Sweden, had some 3,000 microscopic water bears sent up on a 12-day space trip.
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Why Nuclear Power Plants Are Horrible
Science & Tech  (tags: nuclear, fission, power, plants, renewable, energy, source, reasons, against, for, radioactive, waste, nonrenewable, electricity, radiation )

Phil
- 478 days ago - philforhumanity.com
The reasons against nuclear (fission) power plants are because they are non-renewable, dangerous, and create radioactive waste.
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New Drug Can Protect Healthy Cells During Radiotherapy
Science & Tech  (tags: science, discovery, treatment, radiation, prevention )

Ingrid
- 594 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Scientists have found a drug which can protect healthy cells from radiation. The discovery could improve the effectiveness of radiation therapy in treating cancer and help prevent radiation sickness after exposure to a nuclear accident or attack.
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Westinghouse Strikes Deal to Build US Nuclear Power Plants
Science & Tech  (tags: nuclear power plants, Westinghouse Electric, Toshiba, Georgia Power, Three Mile Island, China, nuclear reactor, greenhouse gas, emmissions, radiation )

LL
- 598 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Westinghouse Electric, a unit of the Japanese Toshiba Corp., said Tuesday it had struck a deal with Georgia Power to build two nuclear power plants in the southern United States, the first such projects in 30 years. The announcement that two Westinghouse
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Mutated Fungi Thrived In Radioactive Environment
Science & Tech  (tags: nuclear, power plant, Chernobyl, radiation )

Ben
- 617 days ago - blogmyway.org
As by now the super heroes stemmed from the explosion of Chernobyl nuclear power plant have all either grown up or gotten old. Some chose to stay hidden, and others chose to do heroic things in the shadow. CIA wanted to know who went ahead of them and d
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Theory Hawking Predicted 30 Years Ago Proved By Simulated Black Hole
Science & Tech  (tags: hawking, space, black hole, quantum, physics, theory, radiation )

Jean
- 622 days ago - redorbit.com
Quantum mechanics predicts that entangled pairs made up of a particle and its anti-particle can spontaneously pop out of otherwise empty space, exist for a fleeting moment, and then annihilate each other and disappear. In the 1970s, Hawking predicted that
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Scientists Think They Have Discovered the Energy Source of the Northern Lights
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, energy, environment, radiation, space )

Ralph
- 717 days ago - centralkansas.cox.net
SAN FRANCISCO (Associated Press) -- Scientists think they have discovered the energy source of the spectacular color displays seen in the northern lights. New data from NASA's Themis mission,
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First Stars Were Huge and Dark
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, dark stars, dark matter, study, research, scientists, gamma rays, antimatter, radiation, space, interesting )

Laurel
- 724 days ago - space.com
The first stars to form in the universe may not have shone like those today, but instead may have been invisible "dark stars" powered by the annihilation of dark matter, a new study finds.
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Setting Stars Reveal Planetary Secrets
Science & Tech  (tags: stars, Earth, Mars, Venus, atmosphere, wavelength, radiation, ozone, study science, scientists, research, space, interesting )

Laurel
- 750 days ago - sciencecentric.com
Watching the stars set from the surface of the Earth may be a romantic pastime but when a spacecraft does it from orbit, it can reveal hidden details about a planet's atmosphere.
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