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Among the many science toys that have fallen out of fashion since we started getting nervous around things like mercury, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and radiation is the spinthariscope, which let people ...

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned Americans that some shrimp products sold at Walmart may contain a radioactive substance known as Cesium-137. A Walmart spokesperson told Newsweek, "The ...

Reports of radioactive wasp nests at the Savannah River Site spawned news coverage the nation over and even spread to Great Britain, where the BBC focused as much on the “old US nuclear weapons site” ...

A team of Italian researchers has uncovered compelling evidence of anomalous radioactive decay in cobalt-57 (Co-57) under ultrasonic stimulation, offering strong experimental support for the Deformed ...

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The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tepco, has said that two specially designed and newly installed robots will need three years to remove 3,000 sandbags from the basements of the three destroyed ...