The animals are helping scientists understand the effects of weightlessness and high radiation levels experienced in space.
Radiation damages DNA, so why would you want to expose a fertilized egg to a high radiation environment?
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The robots could be sent into areas that would be dangerous for humans to enter because of high radiation levels.
Based on their models, the authors suggest that the high radiation intensity of the inner belt could persist for as long as a decade.
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However, aside from a lack of gravity, Logan says high radiation is the real hurdle for living and procreating in low earth orbit and beyond.
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For instance, Toshiba says its robot has a wireless network that can be controlled in high radiation, looking for a better signal when reception is weak.
The radio-controlled machines they used often failed to carry out commands or did the opposite of what they were supposed to do, because their electronics were disrupted by the high radiation.
"We did find that women who lived in the South and areas of high solar radiation have reduced risk of breast cancer, " said John, who is based at the Northern California Cancer Center in Union City, California.
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was designed to search for dark matter by collecting high energy radiation known as cosmic rays, and then sort through it looking for a certain class of particle believed to be created after two bits of dark matter collide in space and destroy each other.
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The leak is thought to have been the source of high levels of radiation found in seawater nearby.
These intensely bright but fleeting flashes of very high-energy radiation signal some of the Universe's most violent happenings.
Although the human cells are very good at repairing this damage, they cannot cope with high doses of radiation.
In Russia, authorities are on high alert monitoring radiation levels along the shore.
It is clear that high doses of radiation cause an increase in cancer.
The Japanese government insists that the reactors are in a "cold shutdown" state and no longer releasing high levels of radiation.
At the Tokai nuclear power plant, some 100 kilometers south of the Fukushima plant, a high level of radiation was observed.
Medical examinations of Gaubatz and his team taken after their site visits showed that they had been exposed to high levels of radiation.
This instrument monitors high-energy radiation considered to be a health risk to astronauts and a factor in whether microbes could survive on Mars' surface.
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This makes sense: in those areas with a high level of radiation, living things would tend to die or sicken and fail to reproduce.
It will also provide a stereotactic radiosurgery service (SRS) which involves the precise delivery of a single fraction of high-dose radiation, usually within the skull.
Humans must first learn to cheaply and safely propel themselves into space regularly, and then, once there, must adapt to high levels of radiation and to weightlessness.
About 20 more who received high doses of radiation died of various causes in the following years, and as many as 4, 000 cancer deaths are expected as a result of the disaster, according to those U.N. agencies.
Given the risks of aiming such a powerful beam of high-intensity radiation at an Earth ground station, as well as the cost of building billions of dollars in infrastructure to collect the energy in space, the efficiencies you can get from terrestrial solar power seem a safer bet--at least for now.
Everywhere I turn, I hear that unless radiation levels get improbably high, nobody will get sick, as if acute radiation sickness is the only consequence of exposure.
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Its Burst Alert Telescope is set up to catch the intense but fleeting flash of very high-energy gamma radiation that initially signals a GRB event.
The four units of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, were gravely damaged in the 9.0 March 11 earthquake and resulting tsunami that took the lives of more than 10, 000 people and has the northern part of Japan, and its neighbors China and Russia, on high alert for nuclear radiation leaks.
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As background you need to understand that Busby is insistent that even very low levels of radiation lead to high and extreme health effects.
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Sure, radiation's not high on our personal list of threats, but that doesn't mean it's not on someone's, right?
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The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source houses synchrotron radiation facilities for research in physics, chemistry, biology, and environmental and materials sciences.
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