News tagged with radioactive
Ongoing worldwide shortage of medical isotopes could threaten patient care, says expert
Mar 18, 2009 |
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A University of Nottingham expert is calling on the Government to provide substantial new investment into the production of medical isotopes or face a dangerous shortage that threatens to compromise patient healthcare.
Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of the DZero collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved the world's most precise measurement of the mass of the W boson by a ...
Scientists discover historic sample of bomb-grade plutonium
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Washington state are reporting the surprise discovery of the oldest known sample of reactor-produced bomb-grade plutonium, a historic relic from the infancy of America’s nuclear weapons program. ...
Link between unexploded munitions in oceans and cancer-causing toxins determined
Feb 18, 2009 |
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During a research trip to Puerto Rico, ecologist James Porter took samples from underwater nuclear bomb target USS Killen, expecting to find evidence of radioactive matter - instead he found a link to cancer. ...
The Death of Entanglement: Life Without Half-Life
Feb 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum entanglement, a type of correlation peculiar to quantum objects, has been found to disregard completely the "half-life" rule that is obeyed by all natural processes, such a radioactive decay.
Baby teeth re-studied for effects of radiation fallout
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Questionnaires will soon be sent to thousands of men who donated their baby teeth half a century ago to scientists seeking to learn whether radioactive fallout in milk the donors drank as children affected their health later ...
Missing Radioactivity in Ice Cores Bodes Ill for Part of Asia
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2008 |
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When Ohio State glaciologists failed to find the expected radioactive signals in the latest core they drilled from a Himalayan ice field, they knew it meant trouble for their research.
Detecting dirty bomb material with ESA gamma-ray technology
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Thanks to ESA and UK technology transfer support, a British company has developed a device based on the gamma-ray detection equipment used in ESA’s Integral astronomy satellite to detect and identify the radioactive ...
MU researcher finds new method to create cancer drugs
Sep 28, 2008 |
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When fixing a car, it's a good idea to have more than one type of wrench. Similarly, when doctors treat cancer patients, they like to have different "tools" available. Cancer tumors can be big or small. Some tumors grow very ...
Researcher Finds New Method to Create Cancer Drugs
Sep 16, 2008 |
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When fixing a car, it’s a good idea to have more than one type of wrench. Similarly, when doctors treat cancer patients, they like to have different “tools” available. Cancer tumors can be big or small. Some tumors grow very ...
