Category: Radiation

Before March 11, 2011, Japan had already developed sophisticated high-technology tsunami-warning systems that included satellite communications and hundreds of real-time monitoring stations. But on March 11 the community-level response (and…

The extraordinarily resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans withstands harsh environmental conditions present in outer space. Deinococcus radiodurans was exposed for 1 year outside the International Space Station within Tanpopo orbital mission…

The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel. The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5%…

There are seven natural forms of EMR. Gamma rays have the highest energy and shortest wavelength. Then come X-rays, ultraviolet light, visible light, infrared radiation and microwave radiation. Finally, radio…

Radiation striking things, or people, on the surface of Mars originates from space. And most of the radiation striking a person or a piece of equipment comes directly from the…

After the Hiroshima, Fukushima, and Chernobyl nuclear disasters, fields of sunflowers were planted across the affected landscapes to help absorb toxic metals and radiation from the soil. New research now…

Realistically, there are only a fixed number of atoms in a radioactive sample, and so the mass of an isotope will eventually reach zero as all the nuclei decay into…

Drugs such as macrolide antibiotics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory such as ibuprofen ( 16 ) (Figure 2), quinine ( 17 ) (Figure 2), celecoxib ( 18 ) (Figure 3), etoricoxib ( 19…

The area known as Home Plate is a housing Location in central area of The Commonwealth. It is located inside Diamond City Market in a vacant lot you can purchase…

Greenhouse gases are gases in Earth's atmosphere that trap heat. They let sunlight pass through the atmosphere, but they prevent the heat that the sunlight brings from leaving the atmosphere.…