Source: Scientific Blogging
In transportation, road traffic contributes the most to global warming, aviation is second, railways are negligible and shipping actually has a net cooling effect on the earth's climate, according to a study published recently.
Source: Science: Current Issue
If chemicals were people, uranium dioxide would be the guy standing alone with his drink at a party. The world's most commonly used radioactive substance--and its heaviest natural element--clutches its two oxygen atoms so tightly, it almost never reacts with other compounds.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Alarms over international nuclear smuggling were raised last night when Slovak police announced that three men had been arrested in Slovakia and Hungary after allegedly trying to sell a kilogram of radioactive material.
Source: National Post
A record number of incidents where low-level nuclear material has been lost in Canada has officials in that country and the United States concerned that terrorists are possibly preparing for an attack with a "dirty bomb."
Source: Reuters
Congolese authorities arrested six people in connection with the dumping of tons of highly radioactive minerals into a river near the southeastern town of Likasi, the environment minister said on Friday.
Source: This is London
The man who served the tea that poisoned Alexander Litvinenko told today of his fears for his own safety.
Source: This is London
Olympic chiefs have discovered radioactive contamination on the Games site. Hotspots of the highly poisonous heavy metal radium-226 were discovered near Stratford.
Source: BBC News
The authorities in Ukraine have approved a giant steel cover for the radioactive site of the world's worst nuclear disaster - Chernobyl.
Source: Science Daily
Far from the everyday world occupied by such common elements such as gold and lead lies a little-understood realm inhabited by radioactive, or unstable, elements.
Source: Ecolo.org
Zoe, le soda atomique. Donne une energie infinie, comme la pile atomique!
Source: New Scientist
Many scientists believe that cancer deaths among smokers are due to the radioactive content of tobacco leaves and not to nicotine and tar
Source: Canada.com
"Al-Qaida leaders in Iraq are planning a mass-casualty attack against British and other western targets, possibly with radioactive-dispersal weapons, according to a secret British security intelligence assessment.
Source: USA Today
"No Nukes" was once a familiar rallying cry for environmentalists opposed to nuclear power and all its scary risks. With global warming a rising concern, some environmentalists are rethinking nuclear power because it emits zero greenhouse gases.
Source: Press Esc
United States Government today admitted that its employees working at nuclear weapons facilities were under the risk of contracting cancer as a result of residual radioactive contamination [ GPO].
Source: TIME
Pripyat River
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David Harner pulled on a fitted Lycra outfit with thin tubes snaking around his body carrying cold water. He attached pencil-thin monitoring devices to his thighs, biceps, chest and back. Co-workers helped him into a red rubber suit and a helmet attached to an oxygen line. Mr.
Source: New Scientist
The autopsy of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko may be a dangerous procedure as up to half the Polonium 210 ingested will still be present in the body.
Source: Live Science
How Old is Earth? Find out, and return daily for investigations into the world around you.
Source: The L.A. Times
Radioactive, cancer-causing tritium has leaked into the groundwater beneath the San Onofre nuclear power plant, prompting the closure of one drinking-water well in southern Orange County, authorities said.
Source: EurekAlert!
Health physicists are establishing safe procedures for a promising experimental brain-cancer therapy which uses a radioactive version of a protein found in scorpion venom.
Source: Jeff Rense Program
Source: aljazeera.com
Last week, the U.S. military placed an order for $38 million in depleted uranium rounds... The U.S.
Avoidable mortality (excess mortality) is the difference between the ACTUAL deaths in a country and the deaths EXPECTED for a peaceful, well-administered country with the same demographics.
Source: Reuters
The real "24." A real US CTU boss told Londers that a boiological terror attack in the West is inevitable. He credited the war on terror with slowing Al-Qaida attack plans. Oh, and he says bin Laden is still alive.