We’ve (unknowingly) created a radiation shield around the Earth using radios
Can your Internet landline do this? No.
Tag: radiation
Morning glory seeds are hardy enough to survive in space, experiment reveals
Seeds -- the tiny bunkers of life.
Six years after a disastrous meltdown, it is now officially safe to live in some parts of Fukushima
Exactly six years later after the tsunami hit Fukushima, at least some residents can now sleep without worries.
Israeli company designs anti-radiation body armor to protect astronauts in space
+3 armor +25 radiation resist.
New high-tech shelter reminds us that Chernobyl is still deadly, thirty years after the meltdown
The new one is much better than the last one though.
Mars-bound astronauts face risk of dementia from brain damaging cosmic rays
Talk about a space headache.
Ancient supernovae might have contributed to Earth mass extinction
Death from the heavens.
New class of star-stripped super-Earths discovered
Astrophysicists have discovered a new class of exoplanets whose atmospheres and volatile elements have been blown away by the star ...
Who says incandescent bulbs have to waste energy: MIT design is more efficient than LEDs
Though incandescent light bulbs have been used to light homes for more than a hundreds years, and still do so ...
What an underground nuclear explosion looks like
One this day, 53 years ago, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory detonated a thermonuclear device 194 meters below the Nevada ...
Nuclear battery that uses water-based solution lasts longer and is more efficient
Nuclear batteries might soon prove to be important in generating energy for isolated systems where longevity ...
Trees in Chernobyl aren’t dying and this is a problem
Fallen trees in Chernobyl's Red Forest. Photo: T.A.Mousseau & A.P. Møller Some thirty years after Chernobyl's ...
Veggie-based chemical protects against lethal radiation exposure
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found that a chemical compound derived from cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli has ...
The 2018 manned mission to Mars will use poop as radiation shielding
An artist's illustration of the Inspiration Mars Foundation's spacecraft for a 2018 mission to Mars by ...
NASA discovers surprise energy belt surrounding Earth
A ring of radiation that scientists knew nothing about fleetingly surrounded our planet last year, before being blown away by ...
Mars radiation safe for human expeditions, Curiosity finds
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used a mechanism on its robotic arm to dig up five scoopfuls ...
X-raying a 120 million year old bird
Using a new X-raying technique and device, based on synchrotron radiation, scientists have been able to map the pigmentation of ...
Intense Gamma Ray blast indeed traced back to supermassive black hole
[caption id="attachment_7582" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Artist impression of a star getting ripped by a supermassive black hole. (c) Mark A. Garlick, ...
The 8 coolest ways the Earth might be destroyed
We've all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive ...