radiation

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Fuel shortages are keeping doctors and nurses away from work and hospitals are canceling surgeries and delaying vaccines for children and life-saving treatments such as kidney dialysis and radiation therapy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

"Black holes are known to 'eat' a lot of stuff, but during the active eating process and in their luminous quasar form, they also emit very strong radiation," said Zhu.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

The amount of radiation used is small, akin to a mammogram, and the scans typically don’t need to be repeated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

They'll have to work out how to generate power and build habitats to protect people from extreme temperatures as well as dangerous space radiation.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

And Japan, the only country to have been bombed with atomic weapons, has a particularly complicated relationship with radiation.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland