radiation
Baffled Scientists Detect Massive Unexplained Radiation From the Sun, Study Reports
"The Sun’s emission at high energies challenges present models," scientists say, and "decisive" new probes are needed to solve the mystery.
The Priest of Japan’s Forbidden Zone
At Shinto shrines inside the “hot zone” heavily contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 2011, 91-year-old Nobuhiko Ise keeps tradition alive.
Russian Troops Took Highly Radioactive ‘Souvenirs’ From Chernobyl
The Ukrainian State Agency for Chernobyl warned that the looted objects were highly dangerous and that their whereabouts were unknown.
YouTuber Builds Beautifully Inefficient Nuclear Powered 'Tetris' Machine
Solar panels wrapped around tritium tubes generate just enough energy to power a simple 'Tetris' style handheld.
Astronauts Watched As DNA Repaired Itself In Space, Study Reports
The experiment demonstrated gene-editing using CRISPR/Cas9 in space for the first time, and was proposed by high school students.
Scientists Want to Smell Ocean Radiation to Predict Tsunamis
We don’t know a whole lot about how radioactive the ocean is, but it would help predict disasters if we did.
Fukushima 10 Years On: Radioactive Pigs, and a Father’s Heartbreaking Search
The world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl continues to haunt Fukushima.
Scientists Just Found a New Way to Search for Habitable Exoplanets
Worlds orbiting small red dwarf stars might be less vulnerable to damaging space weather, which could boost the odds that they host life.
Nuclear Radiation Is Floating Above Northern Europe and Nobody Knows Why
Multiple European monitoring agencies have detected nuclear radiation, likely from a power plant of unknown origin, floating above northern Europe.
Someone Scammed a Famous Person by Telling Her Electricity Is Bad
EMF detectors are one of Miranda Kerr's wellness "musts," but they're really not necessary.
Australian Man Takes a Piss in His Backyard, Triggers a Radiation Alert
The man self-discharged from hospital after receiving nuclear medicine. When he got home, his urine contaminated his backyard and exposed his family to radiation.