Tag: radiation

Talk about a space headache.

Death from the heavens.

Astrophysicists have discovered a new class of exoplanets whose atmospheres and volatile elements have been blown away by the star ...

Though incandescent light bulbs have been used to light homes for more than a hundreds years, and still do so ...

One this day, 53 years ago, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory detonated a thermonuclear device 194 meters below the Nevada ...

Nuclear batteries might soon prove to be important in generating energy for isolated systems where longevity ...

Fallen trees in Chernobyl's Red Forest. Photo: T.A.Mousseau & A.P. Møller Some thirty years after Chernobyl's ...

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found that a chemical compound derived  from cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli has ...

An artist's illustration of the Inspiration Mars Foundation's spacecraft for a 2018 mission to Mars by ...

A ring of radiation that scientists knew nothing about fleetingly surrounded our planet last year, before being blown away by ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used a mechanism on its robotic arm to dig up five scoopfuls ...

Using a new X-raying technique and device, based on synchrotron radiation, scientists have been able to  map the pigmentation of ...

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We've all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive ...