This emerging field of space radiobiology has strong and perhaps unexpected links to the far better established discipline of ...

When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, entire ...

Did You Know: An unusual yet scientifically accurate fact about one of the world’s most beloved fruits is drawing curiosity: bananas are mildly radioactive. Far from science fiction, this phenomenon ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

NASA’s AVATAR experiment uses organ chip models from astronauts to study bone marrow and immune response in microgravity and deep space radiation environments.

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Scientists warn that radiation and microgravity pose a major threat to human reproduction in space. Understanding these ...

Elon Musk says his obsession with the red planet is cooling.

That's how researcher Beatriz Garcia Nice describes the new U.S. stance under the Trump administration to programs addressing ...

Cleveland scientists say they may have found a way to keep the brain sharp even after punishing rounds of whole-brain ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Whole brain radiotherapy saves lives by treating cancer that has spread to the brain, but it also causes long-standing brain damage. Many patients who go through whole brain ...

Since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, something has concerned scientists: can exposure to radiation leave marks in someone’s DNA that are passed on to ...