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Published time: 12 Aug, 2017 05:41 Edited time: 12 Aug, 2017 05:42 A UK estate agent has been blasted on Twitter for its apparent attempt to make a joke out of the North Korea crisis by publishing a map of property options “outside of a nuclear impact zone.” The map accompanied a press release from […]
Several of the workers tasked with one of the largest nuclear cleanup efforts in the world have tested positive for radiation contamination. Out of the fraction of workers tested, 20 percent were found with “internal exposures.” On June 8, more than 300 workers at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP), which produced two-thirds of the […]
The aging infrastructure at the largest US nuclear waste site at Hanford, Washington is breaking down, making incidents involving the release of radiation more likely, according to the senior Energy Department official at the site. The Hanford site, located along the Columbia River near Richland, Washington, stores nuclear waste dating back to the early days […]
NASA It has now been a year since NASA successfully expanded a habitat attached to the International Space Station, the experimental Bigelow Expandable Activity Module. Initial tests on the module suggest that expandable habitats may play an important role as NASA considers how best to expand human activity into deep space. During the first year, […]
The Earth’s atmosphere bears precious little resemblance to what it looked like at the start of the Industrial Revolution. As radio technology has advanced and spread, the signals that transmitters produce — specifically the Very Low Frequency (VLF) variety — have changed the way that the upper atmosphere and the Van Allen Radiation Belts interact, […]
Published time: 24 Mar, 2017 15:09 Scientists have made a major breakthrough in fighting the aging process, treating cancer, and chronic illness, as well as protecting us during future space travel; and the drug could be on the market within five years. “This is the closest we are to a safe and effective anti-ageing drug […]
Enlarge / David Charles Hahn (left), pictured here with his half brother Kevin Breeding, just months before his death in September 2016. (credit: Kenneth Hahn) Last year, Ars reported on the death of David Charles Hahn, who was profiled by Harper’s Magazine in 1998 for having attempted to build a homemade breeder nuclear reactor in his […]
(Reuters) – A vest designed to shield astronauts from deadly solar particles in deep space is set for trials on a lunar mission ready for deployment on any manned mission to Mars, its Israeli developers said. The AstroRad Radiation Shield has been devised by Tel Aviv-based StemRad, which has already produced and marketed a belt […]
PRESS RELEASE: Lower penile bulb radiation dose may be associated with ability to maintain sexual function and potency BEDFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–February 24, 2017– Augmenix, Inc., a medical technology company that develops, manufactures, and sells proprietary absorbable hydrogels that separate and protect organs at risk during radiotherapy announced a newly published analysis from the company’s Phase […]
