radioactivity
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Sci-Fi Cult Arson Suspected As Wildfires Near Chernobyl Create World’s Worst Air Pollution
Wildfires are burning yet again in the area outside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. The latest round of blazes has sent smoke travelling to the capital of Kyiv, creating some of the worst air pollution in the world.
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Common Bricks May Record Evidence Of Nuclear Weapons
I hope you aren’t making nuclear weapons in your garage. If you are, your bricks know what you’re doing.
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Take A Tour Of The Most Radioactive Places On Earth
People do some pretty dumb things for YouTube videos. Derek Muller does them for the sake of science, though. The host of Veritasium, a YouTube channel about science, recently visited the most radioactive places on Earth for a TV show about how Uranium and radioactivity affected the modern world. And he lived to tell about…
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How Two Women Made Your Watch Glow In The Dark
On 21 December 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive element radium (in the form of radium chloride), extracting it from uraninite. They first removed the uranium from the uraninite sample and then found that the remaining matter was still radioactive, so investigated further. Along with the barium in the remaining substance, they also…