Cancer-busting particle beams have been caught in the act. Particle beams can provide a blast of destructive energy directly to tumors — assuming the beam is in the right place. Now, using a ...

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The type of radioactivity that I often speak about with Alaska residents comes from a naturally occurring substance, radon gas. And though radon’s alpha radiation comes from buried uranium, the main ...

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