Did your holiday gift list include radiation-shielding undies to protect your privates from cellphone radio waves? A radiation expert explains they’re unnecessary – your phone won’t affect your fertility.
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Cancer is not the modern disease many believe it to be. New fossil evidence from two South African caves suggests that its origins lie deep in prehistory.
CT scans deliver a hefty dose of ionising radiation. But the benefits outweigh the risks – most of the time.
Pairing more powerful computers with increasingly sensitive scanners can yield many benefits in medicine and other fields.
The relentless pursuit of showy flowers for garden display – as seen at Chelsea Flower Show – has seen some odd uses of radiation and chemicals .
It was a rare and brief event, but powerful telescopes helped scientists get a glimpse of a black hole letting out a wind at 3,000km per second.
Astronomers were looking forward to the first high-res X-ray spectra from space, and all they would tell us about the cosmos. But unknown disaster seems to have befallen the Japanese satellite.
We find them at the beach, in every sound and light show, the miracle of wi-fi and now in the fabric of space-time itself. But what exactly is a wave?
The universe looks very different with X-ray vision, revealing some of the most energetic interactions in our galaxy. Japan’s new Hitomi telescope will help us see these wonders.
Big data is about processing large amounts of data. It is often associated with multiplicities of data. But the ability to generate data outpaces the ability to store it.
Principales colaboradores
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Author and Honorary Fellow, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds
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Professor of Astrophysics, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Forensic Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Assistant Professor of Galaxy & Black Hole Astrophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Timothy J. Jorgensen es Amigo de The Conversation.
Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
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Associate Professor in History of Modern Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
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Director of Health Programs, BehaviourWorks Australia; Lead, Monash-McMaster Social Systems Evidence Collaboration, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor and NHMRC Australian Fellow, Medicine, University of Sydney
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Chair professor, University of Huddersfield
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PhD Candidate in Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Health Law and Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
