I’m seven and a half months pregnant, and I’m a wireless-gadget addict. So for the past two weeks I’ve been testing out new products called Belly Armor, which promise to protect my baby from 99% of nonionizing radiation from mobile products, such as my iPhone and iPad
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Search for Radiation Leak Turns Desperate in Japan
— Workers used a milky bathwater dye Monday as they frantically tried to trace the path of radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear plant. The crack in a maintenance pit discovered over the weekend was the latest confirmation that radioactivity continues to spill into the environment.
‘Evidence of Afterlife’ Author Long on Religion, Science
Is there life after death? Theologians can debate all they want, but radiation oncologist Dr
Cell-Phone Radiation: What Is the Risk?
Roughly 270 million Americans do it several times a day: talk on a cell phone. Seems harmless.
Mobile Threat?
For a device so many people use so frequently in the course of a day, surprisingly little is certain about the health effects of cell-phone use.
Low Levels of Radiation Found in U.S. Milk
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration say that very low levels of radiation have turned up in a sample of milk from Washington state. But federal officials say consumers should not worry
Nuclear-Fuel Storage to Be Probed in U.S. Safety Study
Submerged in 40-ft.-deep tanks of blue, boron-infused water, nearly 50,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel are stored near the 104 nuclear reactors in the U.S. Industry officials say it is perfectly safe to keep there.
Hopes Rise in Japan As Engineers Restore Power Cables to Damaged Plant
Could there at last be a flicker of good news from Japan? On Saturday, Japanese officials announced that last-ditch efforts to stabilize the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami might be achieving a modicum of success.
Scientists discover massive ring around Saturn
Scientists at NASA have discovered a nearly invisible ring around Saturn — one so large that it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it.
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