radiation

The study I mentioned in a now long buried thread that shows an increased risk for cancer due to the Chernobyl fallout is now finally printed and published Full article In Sweden it is calculated that an excess of 850 cases of cancer can be attributed to the Chernobyl disaster so far. What...

I'm trying to reaffirm my objection to a stupid plot point. When you walk into a radioactive zone without a suit, the particles (alpha or beta, I think) pass through you, taking out a few of your subatomic particles too. So as I understand it, this can knock out particles in your DNA strand...

And don't tell me it ain't so. You prove it to me! With the crop circle phenomonen, these occur at night. There also is claims that 10,000 of these have been made. Same with toilet papered yards and trees. I work in a university town. I am in the university district late at night. The...

I just read about this Dutch study. It's a double blind experiment where subjects are exposed to different types of EM radiation from cell phone base stations. They get quite a few statistically significant effects. It appears to be well done and I'd like to hear what the physics and statistics...

"Although no one can predict when an individual unstable nucleus of the radioactive atom will give up its excess energy, the time it takes for half of a large number of these atoms to decay can be predicted with statistical accuracy. This is know as the half life of the radioactive element...

Doctors fear that hundreds of Iraqis are suffering from radiation poisoning after widespread looting ..... Seven nuclear facilities have been damaged or effectively destroyed by ransackers since the end of the war last month. Technical documents, sensitive equipment and barrels containing...