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Cause and Effect: Understanding the causes of radioactive decay and its effects on materials and organisms. (Example: Exploring how distance and shielding materials affect exposure to radiation.) ...

When cells are exposed to ionizing radiation, more destructive chain reactions may occur than previously thought. An international team led by researchers has now observed intermolecular Coulombic ...

A new IAEA service has been launched to support countries in developing their regulatory infrastructure for the safety of radiation sources and the security of radioactive material used in fields ...

A genetic study of canines living in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone separates myth from a potential breakthrough in understanding ...

Above-ground atomic bomb test at the Nevada Test Site while troops look on. These clouds of material often wafted over to Utah during the 1950s. After World War II, the United States began years of ...

Wastewater release from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan is expected to have negligible effects on people and the ocean, Jim Smith and colleagues report in a Perspective. The planned ...

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5G conspiracy theorists obsessed with the idea that the next-generation wireless technology will bombard them with deadly radiation have settled on a brilliant plan: wearing necklaces that… also ...

The clicking of a Geiger counter is well enough known as a signifier of radioactive materials, due to it providing the ...