One of the challenges of living beyond the Earth's... ...for long periods of time is the danger of cosmic radiation . But discoveries made by the scientists running t... ...on Hassler, principal investigator on Curiosity's Radiation Assessment Detector instrument (RAD), told a news... ...the Mars atmosphere i...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/19/Martian-Radiation-Low-Enough-for-Humans-to-Survive/
In the early 1950s, Russian sci... ...by the United States and wanted to know how radiation damaged tissue and caused cancer, so th... ...Some were blasted with a-, ß- or ?- radiation . Others were fed radioactive particle... ...recise conditions, at a wide range of *st...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/27/the-secret-of-ozersk/
Japanese scientists studying tr... ...ago an extremely intense burst of high-energy radiation of unknown origin hit planet Earth.... ...hit planet Earth. The radiation burst, which seems to have hit between ad 774 and...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/04/what-hit-earth-1200-years-ago/
At one time, radium, or radiation , was considered new, cutting-edge, and the savior... ...and all products were "better" when infused with radiation
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/15/12-things-enhanced-with-radiation/
[caption id="attachment_56489" align="alignleft" w... ...particles are neutrons. (This is known as neutron radiation .) Neutrons are very large, as atomic particles go... ...carbide, a very dense metal that reflects neutron radiation . The more enclosed in metal the core became, the... ...a blue flash -an eff...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/28/the-curse-of-the-demon-core/
An Associated Press photographer had snapped a pic... ...wn that Minami Soma has become. Some had prepared radiation suits and others wore simple vinyl raincoats. Th...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/19/shelties-rescues-from-radiation-area/
The United States has an underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico containing 2 million cubic feet of radioactive materials (so far). It is scheduled to be sealed up in the year 2070. But... nuclear waste will be dang...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/11/ray-cats-artificial-moons-and-the-atomic-priesthood-how-the-government-plans-to-protect-our-nuclear-waste/
With all the bad news of the nuclear reactor incid... ...an, it's hard to get a handle of exactly how much radiation is bad.Randall Munroe of XKCD created what is pro... ...st informative chart about the different doses of radiation you get from various activities of life, from sle...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/20/xkcd-radiation-dose-chart/
Way back in 2007, we posted an item about how cell phones might be responsible for Colony Collapse Disorder, which is affecting the world honeybee population. Now, scientists in India have published results of an experim...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/06/30/cell-phones-and-honeybees/
We've featured adorable subatomic particles from... ...a new item called the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation . This cuddly plush toy represents the residual radiation from the Big Bang. The perfect gift for someone w...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/22/the-cosmic-microwave-background-radiation/
