radiation
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Television has become like background radiation: toxic but barely noticed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Biden announced the diagnosis two days later and began receiving hormone and radiation therapy immediately.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
He underwent radiation therapy and is receiving hormone therapy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Together, these improvements allow the simulation to track both the formation of galaxies and the enormous changes that radiation produces across cosmic distances.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
A nuclear power plant that is humming along properly contains its radiation in the reactor.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
There were radiations of hoofed mammals; of primates including our ancestors; of whales and dolphins; of the all-time biggest sharks.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025
The link between a tendency to explore and colonize new environments and rapid evolution could help explain adaptive radiations in other species, says Daniel Moen, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Riverside.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024
The ultimate causes, or triggers, of adaptive radiations is one of the big mysteries in biology.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024
The species depicted are only four from a very diverse lineage that contains many branches, dead ends, and adaptive radiations.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
Consequently, it would no longer be possible to compel “all those interested in nuclear physics and penetrating radiations to come to Berkeley.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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