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Scientists May be Able to Double Efficacy of Radiation Therapy
Scientists may have a way to double the efficacy and reduce the side effects of radiation therapy. Georgia Health Sciences University scientists have devised a way to reduce lung cancer cells’ ability to repair the lethal double-strand DNA breaks...
New International Report Shreds Japan’s Carefully Constructed Fukushima Scenario
Japan’s six reactor Fukushima Daichi nuclear complex has inadvertently become the world’s bell-weather poster child for the inherent risks of nuclear power ever since the 11 March Tohoku offshore earthquake, measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, triggered...
Study Claims Big Tobacco Knew Radioactive Particles in Cigarettes Posed Cancer Risk But Kept Quiet
Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed “deep and intimate” knowledge of these particles’ cancer-causing potential, but they deliberately kept their findings...
Balloon-based Experiment to Measure Gamma Rays 6,500 Light Years Distant
Beginning Sunday, September 18, 2011 at NASA’s launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, space scientists from the University of New Hampshire are attempting to send a balloon up to 130,000 feet with a one-ton instrument payload to measure gamma...
Novel Imaging Technique May Reduce Lymphedema in Breast Cancer Patients
With guidance from a specialized scan, radiation oncologists at Mayo Clinic were able to reduce by 55 percent the number of lymph nodes critical for removing fluid from the arm that received damaging radiation doses. Science Brief thanks to EurekAlert. Read...
Large CO2 Release Speeds Up Ice Age Melting
Radiocarbon dating is used to determine the age of everything from ancient artifacts to prehistoric corals on the ocean bottom. But in a recent study appearing in the August 26 edition of the journal, Nature, a Lawrence Livermore scientist and his colleagues...
