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A U.S. Elementary School Near a Nuclear Dump Site Is Teeming With Radioactivity
Dangerous, radioactive particles are all over an elementary school in suburban St. Louis, according to a recently published analysis by Boston Chemical Data Corp.
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We Should Deliberately Contaminate Mars With Our Microbes, Controversial Study Argues
A research team is proposing a major philosophical shift in our thinking about the spread of Earthly microbes in space and on Mars in particular. Believing interplanetary contamination to be “inevitable,” the team argues that future Martian colonists should use microorganisms to reshape the Red Planet — a proposition deemed grossly premature by some experts.
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Your Laundry Is Worse For The Environment Than You Think
New research shows that as many as 700,000 microscopic fibres are released into the environment each time we do the laundry. It’s a problem with no easy solution in sight.
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Why Scientists Have Been Scared Of Space Germs For Almost 50 Years
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty was one of the few things the US and the Soviet Union managed to agree on at the height of the Cold War. Among other things, it forbid both nations from bringing space microbes back to Earth, or spreading Earth germs to other planets.