Oregon Advertising Studio Tracks Fukushima Radiation If you were to picture the sort of person who might take the lead in gathering radiation data from the Fukushima nuclear accident, Marcelino Alvarez probably wouldn't come to mind. My background is...
A key Japanese adviser on radiation(放射 ) leaks at the country's disabled Fukushima nuclear power facility has quit in protest over the government's handling of the disaster. The adviser, Toshiso Kosako, a radiation safety expert at the Univer...
WASHINGTON, March 30 (Xinhua) -- A trace amount of radioactive(辐射性的) iodine(碘) has been found in a sample of milk from the west state of Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sai...
The World Health Organization (WHO) warns against the indiscriminate(任意的无差别的) use of potassium iodide as a precaution against nuclear radiation. WHO is issuing this advisory following reports of people in Japan and elsewhere who are usi...
U.S. health experts monitoring Japan's nuclear crisis are seeking to explain health risks from radiation(放射) exposure, while cautioning that radiation levels measured this week at the Fukushima-Daiichi power plant in northern Japan have not y...
NEW DELHI, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The Indian government has ordered food originating from(发源于) Japan to be tested for radiation in the wake of explosions at a Japanese nuclear plant following a devastating earthquake-tsunami last Friday, repo...
Israeli start-up firm Tawkon has developed software to measure mobile telephone handset radiation(辐射) aimed at helping users reduce exposure(曝光) to emissions without giving up their phones. Tawkon's (pronounced talk-on) application is alr...
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This is Scientific American's 60 Seconds Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? In 1900 legendary physicist Max Planck described the way energy gets dissipated from any nonreflective object, called a blackbody. But even Max said if something else i...
This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Animals rely on all sorts of cues to find their next meal. Monkeys and birds are attracted to the colors of ripe fruits and berries. And snakes find thei...