radiation
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The Environmental Protection Agency has jurisdiction over certain radiation that goes beyond the site boundary of a nuclear facility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Many long-distance high-altitude flights from Paris would have taken her near the North Pole, where exposure to radiation from space – strictly speaking particles from the sun and other stars – is the most intense.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The usual course of treatment involves physically draining rounds of chemotherapy and radiation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The court highlighted the role of night work, exposure to ionising radiation and passive smoking.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
On the morning of the 13th, sensors in the engine room had registered radiation levels on deck at more than twice normal.
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
Due to this reproductive isolation, New World monkeys and Old World monkeys underwent separate adaptive radiations over millions of years.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
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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