Eighty years after the Trinity Test brought nuclear fallout to their communities, New Mexico residents living downstream of the test may finally be eligible for long-sought reparations. In the early hours of July 16, 1945, the U.S. Army detonated the world’s first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Radioactive […]
A Protein Borrowed From Tardigrades Could Give Us Radiation Body Armor
The strangely adorable and resilient tardigrade, or water bear, just might hold the key to making cancer treatment a lot more (water-) bearable. That’s because a team of researchers just found evidence that a protein produced by these microscopic creatures could protect our healthy cells from the ravages of radiation therapy. Scientists at MIT, the […]
A Drone Strike Has Hit Chornobyl and Set Fire to the Shield that Keeps Radiation at Bay
Last night, a drone hit the outer shell that protected the world from the radiation of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Kyiv blamed Russia and Moscow denied it had anything to do with the attack. Last night, a Russian attack drone with a high-explosive warhead struck the shelter protecting the world from radiation […]