Radioactive contamination from Coldwater Creek in Missouri linked to higher cancer rates, a Harvard study finds, as Congress ...

Here we report that radiation increases the oncolytic activity of KD1, KD3, and VRX-007. This increased activity was observed in cultured cells, ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new and faster method for detecting and measuring the radioactivity of minuscule amounts of radioactive ...

Intake of radioactivity into the human body can come from any of the following activities on site: breathing radon gas or dusts contaminated with radiation, smoking, eating, drinking, chewing gum ...

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, Disposal of Low Activity Radioactive Waste, Proceedings Series - International Atomic Energy Agency , IAEA, Vienna (2005) Download to: EndNote BibTeX *use BibTeX ...

Introduction to Radioactivity. Lesson Overview In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive ...

Specifically, this CRP will focus on several activities, including: an examination of radioactive material and current safety thresholds to validate if they are an appropriate basis for security: an ...

Radiation from a mobile phone call can make brain regions near the device burn more energy, ... at most, and looked at brain activity over brief time spans of about 60 seconds.

Radioactive elements may be crucial to the habitability of rocky planets Earth-size planets can have varying amounts of radioactive elements, which generate internal heat that drives a planet’s ...

The risk is from exposure to increased concentrations of ionizing radiation, which is naturally present in the ground in the forms of radium, thorium, uranium, lead, and/or radon (Horn, 2009; EPA ...