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Decontaminating Fukushima: have the billions spent been worth it?

The Chernobyl and (to a lesser extent) Fukushima nuclear accidents contaminated large areas of land with low-level radioactivity. After both accidents, huge efforts were taken to decontaminate the affected areas.

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Already approved drugs could cut risk of cervical cancer return, study finds

Trial involved short course of induction chemotherapy before standard chemoradiation treatment

The Guardian - UK

Better use of existing drugs increases cervical cancer survival, study suggests

Researchers assessed whether a short course of induction chemotherapy before chemoradiation could reduce rates of relapse and death.

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Scientists hail biggest cervical cancer breakthrough in 20 years

Short course of induction chemotherapy can slash risk of death by 35%

Evening Standard

FDA approves first-of-its-kind new ‘bubble’ treatment for liver cancer

Histotripsy could cause less harmful side effects compared to radiation and chemotherapy, experts say

The Independent UK

We traced a powerful radio signal to the most distant source yet – a galaxy billions of lightyears away

Every day and night, hundreds of thousands of intense, brief flashes of radiation suddenly flicker on and then off all across the sky. These “fast radio bursts” are invisible to the naked eye, but to a radio telescope many almost outshine everything else in the sky for a few thousandths…

The Conversation

Radioactive instrument missing at SA steel plant

A search is ongoing for a radioactive instrument missing from a South Australian steel plant but authorities say there is no threat to workers or the public.

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Canon Prepares Nanoimprint Lithography Tool To Challenge EUV Scanners

Canon has recently revealed its FPA-1200NZ2C, a nanoimprint semiconductor manufacturing tool that can be used to make advanced chips. The device uses nanoimprint lithography (NIL) technology as an alternative to photolithography, and can theoretically challenge extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography tools when it comes to resolution. Unlike…

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Borders to have radiation detection equipment

Radiation Detection Equipment will be installed at the Integrated Check Posts and land ports of Attari (Pakistan border), Petrapole, Agartala, Dawki and Sutarkandi (all on the Bangladesh border), Raxaul and Jogbani (Nepal) and Moreh (Myanmar).

The Hindu

No charges or fines for WA's wayward radioactive pill

A months-long investigation into the disappearance of a radioactive mining capsule in outback WA has concluded with no charges or fines laid.

AAP

Astronomers Can’t Pinpoint the Source of the Most Powerful Source of Radiation Ever Observed

Researchers found some of the most energetic gamma rays ever observed. And right now, they have no explanation for it.

Inverse

KLE Cancer Hospital in Belagavi achieves a milestone

KLE Cancer Hospital in Belagavi has achieved a milestone with successful completion of its first patient treatment using HYPERARC-FSRS technique. The procedure was completed in just five minutes, compared to 45-60 minutes for Gamma Knife/Cyberknife SRS. Prabhakar Kore, Nitin Gangane, V.D. Patil, N.M. Mahanthshetti, and Col. Dayananda congratulated the hospital.…

The Hindu

Fukushima Study Links Radiation To Higher Risk Of Diabetes In Emergency Workers

Emergency workers exposed to radiation during Fukushima accident have a 47% higher chance of developing diabetes, study finds.

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What has the Nobel Prize in Physics ever done for me?

Each October, physics is in the news with the awarding of the Nobel Prize. The work acknowledged through this most prestigious award often seems far removed from our everyday lives, with prizes given for things like “optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms” and “elucidating the quantum structure of…

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Study reveals how high-dose radiation can treat older patients with inoperable kidney tumors

A recent study from Australian and Dutch experts revealed that older patients with kidney tumours who are not candidates for surgery may benefit from targeted, high-dose radiation. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Independent UK

Apple issues iPhone 12 update over radiation concerns

French regulators claim handset has unsafe radiation exposure levels

The Guardian - UK

‘Supercontinent’ could make Earth uninhabitable in 250m years, study predicts

Extreme temperatures, radiation and collapse of food supply created by merging of continents would cause mass extinction

Inverse

NASA Needs To Solve One Critical Problem Before Humans Can Travel To Mars

Traveling to space poses risks to the human body. Scientists need to find solutions for these hazards before any manned missions to the red planet.

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How space can harm the human body

But scientists are working to mitigate these risks before sending people to Mars

The Hindu

Keep calm: On solar radiation management

There has also been little research on understanding how myriad weather systems affect each other and their relative sensitivities to interventions such as solar radiation management

The Independent UK

Inside the delicate art of maintaining America's aging nuclear weapons

The U.S. will spend more than $750 billion over the next decade to overhaul nearly every part of its nuclear defenses and replace systems that in some cases are more than 50 years old

The Conversation

Spending time in space can harm the human body − but scientists are working to mitigate these risks before sending people to Mars

When 17 people were in orbit around the Earth all at the same time on May 30, 2023, it set a record. With NASA and other federal space agencies planning more manned missions and commercial companies bringing people to space, opportunities for human space travel are rapidly expanding.

The Hindu

Risky geoengineering should be banned, climate group says

Controversial technologies intended to offset the effects of atmospheric carbon should banned until properly assessed, a group of politicians and scientists have warned

The Canberra Times

'We will continue to fight': Radiation therapists walk off the job

ACT government accused of dragging its feet on pay issue.

Radio France Internationale

Apple to update iPhone 12 in France over radiation concerns

Apple will update the iPhone 12 in France after regulators raised concerns over electromagnetic radiation emitted by the devices, the country's digital minister and the firm said on Friday.

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