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A particular type of UV light, shown here with a scintillator composed of plastics, could revolutionize the practices of flu prevention.
Health
A cure for the flu? It could be as simple as sitting under a lamp.
Most Americans are never too far away from their cell phones. To date there have been no evidence of harmful radiation effects from the collective scientific community in spite of a recent report from California.
Lifestyle
A California public health report suggests that cellphone exposure is bad for us — but the scientific community isn’t so sure
Popcorn
Technology
We’ve been nuking our food for 50 years now — but how do microwaves even work?
Children play near a Geiger counter that monitors radiation at a kindergarten about 30 miles from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The government is increasingly pushing families displaced by the disaster to return to their home
Environment
Some of Japan’s ‘nuclear refugees’ can finally go home — but they don’t want to
A man walks between a fallow rice field at Miyakoji area in Tamura, Fukushima prefecture on April 1, 2014. The area was finally opened to residents three years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Environment
Riding the bus through Japan’s forbidden nuclear zone
These residents have been given temporary jobs maintaining public places.
Environment
Not everyone wants the clean-up in Fukushima to be over
PBS NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien
Environment
Science reporter Miles O’Brien on the Fukushima cleanup, irradiated fish and losing his arm on assignment
Pete Knutson and his son Dylan sell local Pacific salmon at outdoor markets around the Seattle area. The sign on their stall at a recent market in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood reads, “In response to multiple customer inquiries regarding the Fukushima i
Environment
Worried about radioactive ‘Fukushima’ fish in the US? Don’t be, scientists say
Touring ghost towns left behind by Japan’s nuclear disaster
Business, Economics and Jobs
Searching for impossible silence
Global Politics
In Japan, Citizen Radiation-Tracking Project Goes Big Time
Environment
In Stressful Wake of Fukushima Disaster, Japan Now Dealing With ‘Atomic Divorce’
Environment
Safecast Crowdsourced Radation Data and the Unknown
Environment
Radiation from Fukushima Nuke Plant More Than Expected
Cancer Deaths in Chernobyl, Brazil Invests in Science
Deformed Frog Detectives
Knowing What You Eat
Electromagnetic Radiation: Assessing the Threat
Electromagnetic Radiation: Assessing the Threat
The Right to Know: Irradiated Food Labels
Environmental Health Note/Can You Hear Me Now?
Environmental Health Note/Can You Hear Me Now?
Health Note/Drug Absorption