Professor George Fraser, director of the Space Research Centre at Leicester University, was excited by the radiation research.
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source houses synchrotron radiation facilities for research in physics, chemistry, biology, and environmental and materials sciences.
This week, Turkey's semi-official Anatolian Agency reported that a special chemical, biological, radiation and nuclear research vehicle had been deployed to one of the busiest border gates between Turkey and opposition controlled Syria.
We recently saw research that suggested negative radiation pressure in light could lead to a practical tractor beam.
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The author of the piece, Dariusz Leszczynski, is a research professor at the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority in Finland.
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And the new research joins numerous previous studies on cell phone radiation that have been unable to definitively prove or disprove cell phones' safety.
Previous research by German scientists in 1999 suggested that short wave radiation had an "undefined negative" impact on homing pigeons.
The problem, he notes, is that public fears about cell phone radiation do not appear to be supported by the preponderance of scientific research.
Despite years of research, there's still no conclusive proof cell phone radiation causes cancer and other health problems in the brain.
Rare earth elements are also used for military applications, such as advanced optics technologies, radar and radiation detection equipment, and advanced communications systems, according to a 2011 research report by the US Government Accountability Office.
While the world waits for more research to be conducted, consumers can take steps to limit cell phone radiation exposure by using the speakerphone or a wired earpiece to make calls.
Ironically, because past research studying the after-effects of exposure to things like atom bombs and radiation treatments for cancer suggests the most important environmental risk factor for meningiomas is ionising radiation.
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The contamination discovered last month here in eastern Washington state under a disused research building is so radioactive it could kill on contact, said Don McBride, a radiation expert with the federal contractor cleaning up the building.
The Australian research focused on the thermal effects or specific absorption rate (SAR) of radio frequency radiation - a measure of its actual effects on brain tissue, whereas the earlier study simply looked at electromagnetic radiation levels.
Enter web-comic celebrity Randall Munroe (of xkcd), and his friend Ellen, Senior Reactor Operator at the Reed Research Reactor, who have put together some charts which might help us make sense of all this radiation talk.
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