Tag: radiation

Scientists may have now found the genes that enable tardigrades' amazing ability to withstand powerful radiation.

Mars is bombarded by a ton of radiation. But cave entrances block most of these dangerous rays.

Research on Chernobyl frogs has shown that the ionising radiation caused by the accident triggered a process of natural selection ...

The number of mutant plant varieties on the market is unknown.

The wild boars have no predators and have interbred with domestic pigs left behind by humans.

Some headline formats never get old.

That's pretty metal!

It can covert radioactive energy into chemical energy

This could be used in fields ranging from medicine to space exploration.

Social media is packed with suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe is somehow connected to the implementation of ...

The team found that the "level of human activity, elevation and habitat type" had a larger effect on wildlife than ...

Who said size doesn't matter?

A novel quantum simulator offers unique insights about the 'guts' of a black hole.

Yeast badges could be the radiation sensors of the future.

The victim was less than a mile away from the blast's center, with devastating effects.

"You can hack electronics, but you can't hack physics," says lead author Areg Danagoulian.

We've learned a lot about the early universe.

Flares like this one are powerful enough to turn the planet into a hellscape.

Each of the two belts surrounds the Earth in a sort of doughnut-shaped formation.

A creative solution could ease concrete's strain on the environment.

The aurora was triggered by a solar storm which doubled radiation levels on the planet's surface.

Can your Internet landline do this? No.

Seeds -- the tiny bunkers of life.

Exactly six years later after the tsunami hit Fukushima, at least some residents can now sleep without worries.

+3 armor +25 radiation resist.

The new one is much better than the last one though.

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 is a key factor. ...

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

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 two-person crew. The ...

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 of material from a ...

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

We previously reported about an incredible gamma ray burst triggered by a black hole, so powerful that nothing like this ...

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