In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

Ever since scientists figured out how to put humans in space, they've been working to protect those humans from exposure to excessive radiation. High-energy particles from the Sun and from cosmic rays ...

The biological effects of ionizing radiation vary with the type and energy ... exposure from radioactive elements which we take into our bodies through food and water, and through the air we breathe.

Researchers at Ghent University in Belgium are working on the development of advanced 3D-printed hydrogels for radiation ...

There are over 1,500 known species of these tardigrades, also known as “water bears ... protect the tardigrades from the harmful effects of radiation by neutralizing harmful free radicals.

During the 1950s and 1960s, I remember the government-conducted Civil Defense drills in my school. We were told to climb under our school desks, duck down and cover our heads. We might have survived a ...

Over the next few years, climate researchers from Germany aim to achieve a breakthrough in the radiative properties of clouds by describing the corresponding processes not just one-dimensionally, as ...