radioactive
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He was the first to have shape-shifting powers, which he gained after encountering a mysterious radioactive pool of protoplasm.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Reactor number four at the Chernobyl power plant – in what is now northern Ukraine - had exploded, spewing out radioactive material that would spread across swathes of Europe.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
In this study, researchers successfully recreated a key step in the process by observing proton capture on radioactive arsenic-73 for the first time.
From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026
Earth's magnetosphere offers some protection against radioactive cosmic rays and solar particles to the orbiting ISS, but no such cover on the Moon.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
That had been the ultimate incentive of emigration: the android servant as carrot, the radioactive fallout as stick.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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