Sentences with phrase «by radiation on»

I'm like, «Peter, what about this whole you will get cooked by radiation on your way to Mars?»

The drugs would suppress the nausea caused by radiation on the battlefield.

Not exact matches

Just look at this list of benefits from a recent study done at the Yale - Griffin Prevention Research Center by David L. Katz, MD, and his colleagues: «Cocoa can protect nerves from injury and inflammation, protect the skin from oxidative damage from UV radiation... and have beneficial effects on satiety, cognitive function, and mood.»

Its guidelines set maximum radiation exposure levels based on the amount of heat emitted by mobile phones.

Publishing a commentary about Bitcoin by an institutional economics professor is as responsible as letting a village witch doctor give lectures on the merits of proton radiation therapy to treat cancer («The Bitcoin myth,» March 3).

On the other hand, perhaps by learning to avoid genetic deformities we may intervene just in time to keep from being wiped out by a tide of stress - induced or radiation - related mutations.

The Big Bang Theory was as proven as something could get four years ago by the winner of the Nobel Prize in physics who discovered radiation in our universe on a scale and pattern that could only be explained by a gigantic explosion that created our universe 6 billion years ago.

While CO2 laser radiation is unable to generate codes on uncoated beverage cans due to its reflection off metal surfaces, the latest fibre laser systems are perfectly suited for these type of applications: thanks to their high pulse peak power they can code bare aluminium, as well as coated or anodised aluminium, leaving an indelible mark by anodising the surface (a process that does not engrave but actually creates a protective layer on the aluminium).

80 keV (125 times less than permitted) With additional safety aspects we furthermore guarantee the absolutely safe use of our X-ray systems in the inspection of products in the food sector: - We only use low - energy, soft X-rays - X-ray voltage and current are individually adapted for every product - The X-ray tube is hermetically shielded - All the radiation protection covers are monitored by safety switches - X-rays can only be turned on if the system functions perfectly

If there are no other tumors present, treatment includes surgery to remove the nipple and areola, followed by a series of radiation treatments on the whole breast.

Lots of conspiracy theories about how the increase in radiation on the US west coast because of massive, continuing nuclear leakage from Fukushima is not being reported by the mainstream media.

A heckler interrupted Vice President Joe Biden during a speech on Saturday, alleging the VP's son Beau Biden was killed by a tumor caused by radiation from cell phones, which prompted boos from the audience.

«Our position is that radiological contaminants are diffusely spread across the site, as evidenced by the consistent discovery of elevated radiation on nearly every occasion CWM has had to put a shovel in the ground,» said Gary Abraham, the attorney representing the Town of Lewiston, Niagara County Legislature and the villages of Lewiston and Youngstown against CWM.

The clouds on WASP - 104b — an exoplanet orbiting a star 466 light years away — have been swept away by radiation, leaving a surface that reflects almost no light

Modifying the vegetation cover alters the surface properties — such as the amount of heat dissipated by water evaporation and the level of radiation reflected back into space — which has a knock - on effect on local surface temperature.

Enormous clouds of these tiny grains scatter and absorb some of the radiation emitted from the stars — especially visible light — limiting what can be seen by telescopes here on Earth.

«Cervical cancer patients are currently treated as a uniform group based on chemotherapy and radiation regimens that help the largest percentage of people; however, one third of these patients are not helped by standard therapies,» Banister said.

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space - based radiation as measured by a UNH - led detector aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

Instead of relying on light waves emitted by electrons, it would use radiation emitted when the nucleus is excited to a high energy state, and then drops into a lower energy state.

«The evidence that these new gravitational waves are from merging neutron stars has been captured, for the first time, by observatories on Earth and in orbit that detect electromagnetic radiation, including visible light and other wavelengths,» said Chad Hanna, assistant professor of physics and of astronomy & astrophysics and Freed Early Career Professor at Penn State.

The data provide critical information on the radiation hazards that will be faced by astronauts on extended missions to deep space such as those to Mars.

The Sun's activity — including changes in the number of sunspots, levels of radiation and ejection of material - varies on an eleven - year cycle, driven by changes in its magnetic field.

Robert Finkelman, a former USGS coordinator of coal quality who oversaw research on uranium in fly ash in the 1990s, says that for the average person the by - product accounts for a miniscule amount of background radiation, probably less than 0.1 percent of total background radiation exposure.

This separation is essential for the study of gravity because the effect of gravitational radiation — the steady conversion of orbital velocity to gravitational waves as predicted by Einstein — is incredibly small and would have negligible impact on the orbit of the pulsar.

Previous research has tested how well radiation - exposed rats do with basic learning tasks and mazes, but this new Johns Hopkins study focused on tests that closely mimic the self - tests of fitness for duty currently used by astronauts on the International Space Station prior to mission - critical events such as space walks.

The feeble glow of microwaves from the sun is absorbed by our air on the way down, anyway, so unless the core somehow also strips off Earth's atmosphere — in which case we have bigger problems than solar radiation — we should be safe enough from microwaves if our planet's center stops spinning.

The more microwave radiation is absorbed by a resonator, the more likely it is to find an electron on the corresponding atom.»

Following up on the discovery, an international team of scientists led by the Swiss astronomer Vincent Bourrier from the Observatoire de l'Université de Genève, used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the amount of ultraviolet radiation received by the individual planets of the system.

The first unambiguous fossil from the botfly family adds to the few known fossils of a major clade of flies (Calyptratae), shedding light on their rapid radiation during the Cenozoic Era, according to a study published August 23, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Pierfilippo Cerrito from Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, and colleagues.

By maintaining that orientation, WISE can point its telescope away from Earth and keep the sun on one side, allowing the spacecraft to be shielded from solar radiation by its sunshadBy maintaining that orientation, WISE can point its telescope away from Earth and keep the sun on one side, allowing the spacecraft to be shielded from solar radiation by its sunshadby its sunshade.

A report from the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation found that 6,000 individuals who were under the age of 18 in Ukraine, Belarus or Russia at the time of the disaster had by 2006 contracted thyroid cancer, «a substantial fraction» of whom likely contracted the disease due to radiation exposure.

In the field of astrophysics, the University of Cambridge physicist is also known for his work on gravity and black holes, including his 1974 postulation of the eponymous Hawking radiation, a phenomenon by which a black hole should give off a stream of particles from its outer boundary.

Indeed, a significant number of permanent failures on spacecraft have been caused by radiation.

In previous studies, it was predicted that red - edge position on exoplanets should be decided by the radiation spectrum by nearby stars.

The recent declines and disappearances of many frogs, toads, and salamanders have been blamed on a number of causes, including pathogenic infection, pesticides, pollutants, increased UV radiation from ozone depletion, and local drought spurred by climate change.

Crawford - Brown worked for a while on models of the effects of radiation and chemical exposure on human health, then wandered into decision analysis by the back door when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) started to use some of his scientific models.

On the flip side, turning up expression of these genes or their pathways could help researchers grow new intestinal tissue to replace tissue destroyed by diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease or radiation treatment for cancer.

The movement is created, Flatté and his team say, when electrons whose magnetic spin is disturbed by the current on the first sheet exert a force, through electromagnetic radiation, to create magnetic spin in the second sheet.

The technology Solel is pushing is called solar thermal which involves generating heat by reflecting the Sun's radiation on to a highly absorbant surface.

Astrobiologists, who will be presenting their work at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2013 in London on Monday 9 September, have shown that Raman spectroscopy can be used to detect micro-organisms even after they have been damaged by exposure to very high levels of radiation, as is encountered on the Martian surface.

The current statement builds on that advisory by providing practical recommendations for enhancing radiation safety in heart imaging.

The findings appeared in the May issue of Scientific Reports and were presented by UNLV scientist Francis Cucinotta, a leading scholar on radiation and space physics.

On Earth, this radiation shows up in the reactor pools of certain types of nuclear power plants, sparked by high - speed atomic fragments that go shooting through the water.

A radio - labeled human antibody binds to the viral gp41 protein expressed on the surface of the HIV - infected human lymphocyte and the cell is killed by alpha radiation delivered by the antibody.

However, because it remains heavily contaminated by radiation, the region represents an accidental ecological experiment to study the effects of ionizing radiation on wild animals.

As well as its ability to pierce armour plating, DU has the unfortunate tendency to ignite on impact, creating clouds of uranium oxide dust — facilitating its spread in the environment and increasing the danger posed by the alpha radiation it emits.

An international team led by researchers at Nagoya University, along with US and Swiss colleagues, has identified a new type of solar event and dated it to the year 5480 BC; they did this by measuring carbon - 14 levels in tree rings, which reflect the effects of cosmic radiation on the atmosphere at the time.

«They take the very tiny radiation and multiply it by a large population,» says John Boice Jr., director of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.

Substances are tested on a mature epidermis model by applying them to the surface of the epidermis and exposing the model to defined, but non-toxic, doses of UV radiation.

The treatment's effect on the original tumor was less dramatic, but still impressive: The combination of Listeria and radiation shrank the tumor by 64 %, and Listeria alone by about 20 % compared with saline - treated mice.