All Articles Tagged As: radiation

Testing, Radiation Testing: Northwestern Transistors On Space Station (6/15/2008)

Transistors based on a new kind of material have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside of the International Space Station for radiation testing. ...> Full Article

Scientists characterize protein structure of environmentally friendly bacteria (5/23/2008)

Scientists have determined the structure of a key protein domain in a bacterium that could help with bioremediation of uranium-contaminated land sites. ...> Full Article

Fungi have a hand in depleted uranium's environmental fate (5/6/2008)

Fungi may have an important role to play in the fate of potentially dangerous depleted uranium left in the environment after recent war campaigns ...> Full Article

Ceramic, heal thyself (4/21/2008)

Simulation shows how defect-engineered zirconia repairs radiation-induced damage ...> Full Article