Radiation

Finance

Radiation poisoning, or acute radiation syndrome, occurs after a large, short-term dose of ionizing radiation. It damages cells and can affect bone marrow, the digestive system,...

space-weather

Solar flares are bursts of electromagnetic radiation from the Sun. This overview explains what solar flares are, how they can or cannot affect human health, which effects are sc...

Science And Technology

At the time of the Chernobyl accident in April 1986, two plant workers died in the explosion and two firefighters died within weeks from acute radiation syndrome. By 2005, the U...

science-explainer

Solar flares are bursts of electromagnetic energy from the Sun, but do they affect humans on the ground? This evergreen explainer describes how space weather reaches Earth, whic...