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Will the bounty from the Bradley Manning WikiLeaks cables ever end? The New York Times has a pretty awesome article from Sunday about shadow pathways to the Internet that the U.S. government is funding and supporting. The concept is pretty sweet, though I don’t feel remotely that I understand it on any technical level.
A reporter drives back into the 30-kilometer evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan to report on conditions. He reports: He says that, inside the evacuation zone, homes,building, roads and bridges, which were torn down by Tsunami, are left completely untouched, and the herd of cattle and pet dogs, left behind by the [...]
The nuclear situation in Japan grows worse with each passing day. Back on Monday there was a very small amount of radioactive material being vented in Japan. There was not much concern of danger even in Japan itself. A few days later there is concern that a plume of radioactive material might make it all [...]
Amazing, terrible and heartbreaking things can happen when scientists fall in love. In this episode, Robert and Julie discuss the cosmic courtship of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan before diving into the atomic affairs of Marie and Pierre Curie. Whether you love tales of love and heartbreak or ruminations on the evolution of science, then Lauren Rednis’ “Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout” may be the book for you. Julie and Robert discuss the book’s fascinating real-life characters and the beautiful, terrifying science they obsessed over.
How Proton Therapy Works – great for brain tumors and prostate cancer
by Marshall Brain | January 21, 2011
There are several traditional ways to treat cancer: Surgery – cut out the cancer Chemotherapy – poison the cancer cells Radiation – kill the cancer cells with radiation (see Cyberknife, but also done with radioactive seeds and other techniques) X-ray therapy And so on… Proton therapy is a new way to treat cancer, and it [...]
Chernobyl Tourism: Not for the Faint of Heart
by Deblina Chakraborty | December 17, 2010
The Ukrainian government announced this week that they’ll open Chernobyl — the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster — to tourists next year. Would you risk a little radiation to check it out?
Imagine you are a scientist. In 1958 there is a big discovery – some of the very first satellites launched by the United States discover the Van Allen radiation belts. Over the next couple of years they are further studied and characterized by more satellites.
So imagine that you are a scientist, and there are no nuclear proliferation or testing bans in place yet. What’s the next thing you would do? Perhaps you would launch a nuclear bomb into space and try blowing up the belts, just to see what would happen. That, in essence, was the Starfish Prime project, which is described in vivid detail in the following video…
Although most people are frightened by radiation, the truth is we are irradiated every day, both from cosmic rays in the sky, and radioactive elements in the ground. Learn more about radiation in this HowStuffWorks podcast.
What is a nuclear bomb, and how does it work? Learn more about nuclear bombs with Marshall Brain in this HowStuffWorks podcast.
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