New findings demonstrate that there are small effects of radiation even at very low doses. New findings demonstrate that there are small effects of radiation even at very low doses. A small but ...
The U.K. Health Protection Agency estimates the typical Briton receives about 2,200 microsieverts of radiation per year from background radiation, or about 0.251 microsieverts per hour — more than ...
The 30-40 millisieverts per year of radiation that people in part of Brazil, Saudan, India and China get is higher than the annual dosage limits for non-radiation workers in the United States.
Surprisingly, exposure to a high background radiation might actually lead to clear beneficial health effects in humans, according to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Nuclear Research Center ...
Radioactivity is a part of our earth - it has existed all along. Naturally occurring radioactive materials are present in its crust, the floors and walls of our homes, schools, or offices and in the ...
Deep in the Earth, a series of experiments is revealing how life suffers when it’s deprived of background levels of radiation. In 1987, a group of researchers in France discovered something peculiar.