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May 09, 2013

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11:23 PM | San Francisco gives up on cell phone radiation warnings
This could put to rest other municipalities that are considering the same thing. San Francisco surrenders in fight over cell phone warnings | Reuters. San Francisco city leaders, after losing a key round in court against the cell phone industry, have agreed to revoke an ordinance that would have been the first in the United States to require retailers to warn consumers about potentially dangerous radiation levels. “This is just a terrible blow to public health,” Ellen Marks, an […]
Doubtful News
Science Communication
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6:27 PM | Goldilocks Status Looks Ugly
The Earth used to be slap bang in the middle of our Sun’s ‘Goldilocks zone’, an area in space determined by the respective sun’s size, heat and radiation, where life can evolve. However, the 1993 work on the Goldilocks zone … Continue reading →
Week of Science
General Science | General Science

April 20, 2013

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9:03 PM | Life on Mars, anyone?
This week, I was intrigued to learn that a Dutch company called Mars One plans to establish a human settlement on Mars. Shortly, people will be able to apply for a one-way ticket to the planet, landing in 2023. Mars … Continue reading →
My PhD Journey
Public Health | Biology

April 14, 2013

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4:02 AM | The Rad Dose Gum Test
No summary available for this post.
Improbable Research
Engineering | General Science

April 09, 2013

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11:01 PM | Discovered: Dark lightning releases intense bursts of radiation
Holy COW, this is incredibly interesting! Thunderstorms contain ‘dark lightning,’ invisible pulses of powerful radiation – The Washington Post. [...] scientists recently discovered something mind-bending about lightning: Sometimes its flashes are invisible, just sudden pulses of unexpectedly powerful radiation. It’s what Joseph Dwyer, a lightning researcher at the Florida Institute of Technology, has termed dark lightning. Unknown to Franklin but now clear to a growing roster of […]
Doubtful News
Science Communication
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2:01 PM | Airport Security’s X-ray Vision
The two types of full body scanners used at airports differ in their imaging methods and radiation levels, but clear data on their health effects and safety are lacking. by … Continue reading →
Figure One
Science Communication

March 27, 2013

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4:02 AM | Introducing the Terahertz Egg, with water imprinting (new patent)
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Improbable Research
Engineering | General Science

March 12, 2013

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2:34 PM | Atomic Age Artifacts
So what exactly was in all those old fallout shelters?  During the 1950s and 1960s, the Cold War was at its height and the fear of atomic warfare with the Soviet Union was terrifyingly palpable. In response, the United States Office of Civil Defense stocked thousands of fallout shelters in the basements of public schools, city halls, apartment buildings and factories with supplies to protect citizens from the radioactive aftermath of a nuclear attack that never came. But […]
Physics Buzz
Physics
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3:20 AM | On Common Radiation Sources in Average Households
I am slowly, but surely, deciding on the subject matter of this blog.  I want to make science less scary.  There are a great number of blogs and posts and [...]
Kentucky Chemistry
Engineering | Chemistry

March 11, 2013

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8:20 AM | Quake, Tsunami, Radiation: Japan Two Years On
Documentary film maker Ian Thomas Ash reflects on the disaster that struck Japan two years ago. ->
Human
Anthropology

March 06, 2013

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2:02 PM | Hands-on Science in Action: Building a Cloud Chamber to View Radioactive Decay
Check out a series of Cloud Chamber science experiment photos from the "Particles in the Mist: See Radioactive Particles Decay with Your Own Cloud Chamber" Project Idea.
Science Buddies Blog
Education

March 04, 2013

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8:29 PM | Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Energy and Environment Nominees
President Obama's cabinet choices on environment and energy reflect his middle-path approach to governing.
Dot Earth
Environment

March 02, 2013

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1:50 AM | How Big is Our Observable Universe?
“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes When General Relativity supplanted Newton’s work as our theory of how gravity works in the Universe, it didn’t just change how we view how masses attract, it gave us a new understanding of what the questions where…
Starts With A Bang
Astronomy

February 28, 2013

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12:33 PM | WHO: Estimated Health Risks From The Fukushima Radiation Release
    # 6973   The World Health Organization has today published a 172-page Health risk assessment from the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, based on a preliminary dose estimation  based on a preliminary estimate of radiation doses published in May 2012.   First some excerpts from the press release, then I’ll be back with a little more.   Global report on Fukushima nuclear accident details health risks […]
Avian Flu Diary
Medicine | Microbiology

February 21, 2013

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2:02 AM | Correction: Radiation From N. Korea Nuke Test NOT Detected
The detection of a radioactive isotope in Russia and Japan indicate a nuclear test was carried out -- likely deep underground. ->
Human
Anthropology

February 20, 2013

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4:02 AM | Radiation From N. Korea Nuke Test Detected
The detection of a radioactive isotope in Russia and Japan indicate a nuclear test was carried out -- likely deep underground. ->
Dinosaurs
Paleontology

February 07, 2013

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3:36 AM | How can we see black holes?
“According to the special theory of relativity nothing can travel faster than light, so that if light cannot escape, nothing else can either. The result would be a black hole: a region of space-time from which it is not possible to escape to infinity.” -Stephen Hawking You may have encountered objects that are the same…
Starts With A Bang
Astronomy

February 02, 2013

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5:02 AM | Radiation Near Non-Nuclear Sausalito
A high school teacher wrote this treatise: “Obtaining and Investigating Unconventional Sources of Radioactivity,” David R. Lapp [Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley, CA], The Physics Teacher, vol. 48, February 2010, pp. 90-92. The author writes: “Sausalito, California, the city bordering the one I teach in, has a ‘Nuclear Free Zone’ sign (Fig. 1). I often [...]
Improbable Research
Engineering | General Science

February 01, 2013

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7:49 PM | Hadfield brings science down to Earth for kids
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has clearly shown he is interested in staying in touch with the ground, setting new records for tweeting from space. But starting next week, students across Canada will be able to participate in a science experiment with him from their classrooms, which will connect directly to his work in orbit.
Quirks & Quarks
Environment | General Science

January 25, 2013

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3:06 PM | A Boost in Radiation Monitoring for Fracking
Pennsylvania says it will conduct a comprehensive review of radiation levels in drilling cuttings and water but that the amounts measured so far are negligible.
Green
Environment

January 08, 2013

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9:57 PM | Chopper Maps Out DC Radiation
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the Nuclear Safety Administration. Image Courtesy: Frank Gruber If you're a DC resident, don't be surprised by the low-flying chopper you'll likely hear crisscrossing the city for the rest of the week. The helicopter, outfitted with a gamma-ray detector, is mapping out DC's natural radiation levels. This map of existing radiation will act as a baseline for future radiation detection. Gamma rays are the most energetic kind of light in the universe. They can […]
Physics Buzz
Physics

January 05, 2013

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1:27 PM | Alzheimer’s Disease in Space
Space travel. Few things speak more to the imagination than the possibility of leaving our ‘pale blue dot’ and exploring the vast universe in which we’re only a speck of dust. But, making a journey to the stars or planets is not the safest endeavor. There are obvious matters such as accidents, computer failures and [...]

Cherry, J., Liu, B., Frost, J., Lemere, C., Williams, J., Olschowka, J. & O’Banion, M. (2012). Galactic Cosmic Radiation Leads to Cognitive Impairment and Increased Aβ Plaque Accumulation in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, PLoS ONE, 7 (12) DOI:

The Beast, the Bard and the Bot
Biology | Evolution
Citation

January 03, 2013

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2:00 PM | Space Travel May Contribute to Alzheimer’s Later in Life
Thanks to NASA and emerging commercial space flight companies, there will likely be more astronauts in the future, and they’ll be traveling farther and more frequently into space. Space travel has known risks for bones, eyesight and other bodily systems, but a new study is the first to show that space travel could lead to [...]
80beats
Photography | General Science

December 31, 2012

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10:00 PM | Does Deep Space Travel Cause Alzheimer’s?
A new study indicates that the levels of radiation astronauts would experience over the course of a deep space mission could lead to dementia
Surprising Science
General Science

December 18, 2012

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1:00 PM | British Sheep vs. Chernobyl Radiation
The explosion of reactor number four of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 is widely regarded as the worst radiation disaster in human history. The radioactive fallout spread from Northern Ukraine throughout Northern Europe, dispersing large quantities of radioactive elements, including two caesium isotopes, Cs-134 and Cs-137. In the United Kingdom, this radiocaesium-laden cloud mingled with heavy rain falling in mountainous areas of North Wales and Cumbria, depositing substantial […]
mmmbitesizescience
General Science

December 11, 2012

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10:15 PM | Mad on Radium
(Still trying to complete the Christmas shopping list? I’m going to bring to you a couple of book reviews for readers who like more than the latest ‘trashy’ thriller.) New Zealand wasn’t always anti-nuclear. In fact, as New Zealand writer Rebecca Priestley shows us, it was distinctly pro-nuclear. Mad on Radium explores the corners of [...]
Code for Life
Biology
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9:59 PM | How Many Fish Does Gollum Need?
Gollum lives underground where it's cold. How much would he need to eat to keep a constant body temperature? Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain considers the energy requirements of this cave-dwelling creature.
Wired Science » Dot Physics
Physics

November 09, 2012

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5:02 AM | Atomic Bomb v. Cod Fillets (1955 study)
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Improbable Research
Engineering | General Science

November 02, 2012

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11:42 AM | A Hard Look at U.S. Reactor Hardware After Fukushima
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's staff plans to advise that some older American reactors be required to install filtered vents.
Green
Environment

October 31, 2012

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6:45 PM | Frankenstein vs. Godzilla: What’s in Your Cereal Bowl?
In all of the recent discussion about genetically modified (GM) foods here in California, we’ve overlooked regular foods and how new traits are found (or created) in them. There isn’t usually a monk lovingly breeding peas in the Austrian countryside somewhere. Instead, more often than not, there is someone blasting a seed with radiation and/or harmful chemicals.
QUEST Community Science Blog
General Science
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