In the ruins of Chernobyl’s shattered reactors, something unexpected has taken root. Thick black mats of mold are thriving ...

This increased degree of penetration facilitates the crystallographic analysis of real devices such as lithium-ion batteries and the execution of high-pressure experiments using e.g. diamond anvil ...

NEW YORK — Six members of the advocacy group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) held a protest Nov. 19 outside NASA headquarters in Washington in response to radiation experiments the ...

Professor Susan Lederer tells about her career with controversial science methodologies. Susan Lederer Professor, Medical History and Bioethics, UW-Madison Professor Susan Lederer talks about her ...

About 15 years ago, a reporter at the Albuquerque Tribune discovered evidence that during the Cold War, the U.S. government carried out radiation experiments on U.S. citizens without their knowledge ...

HOUSTON—Radiation exposures that human explorers are likely to encounter from galactic cosmic radiation on deep space missions to the Martian environs appear responsible for long-term brain damage in ...

In 1969 Coventry, England, Punjabi mother Pritam Kaur sought treatment for migraines, unaware she was part of a secret radiation experiment. Without her consent, she and others from immigrant ...

Twenty years ago, on Oct. 14, 2003, dignitaries gathered to declare the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) open for experiments. The NSRL facility, built by NASA at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...

In 1994, Johns Hopkins University medical ethicist Ruth Faden was asked to consult the U.S. Department of Energy on reports of government-sponsored radiation-related medical research conducted on ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Ian Swainson, IAEA Department of Nuclear Sciences and ...

According to Marshallese folklore a half-bad and half-good god named Etao was associated with slyness and trickery. When bad things happened people knew that Etao was behind it. “He’s dangerous, that ...