radiation

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Fuel shortages are keeping doctors and nurses away from work and hospitals are canceling surgeries and delaying vaccines for children and life-saving treatments such as kidney dialysis and radiation therapy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

"The intense heat and radiation split the molecular hydrogen that makes up vast, interstellar gas clouds, quenching its potential to accumulate and turn into new stars."

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

With the peak in the solar cycle, they will also be keeping an eye on solar activity and enhanced radiation which could affect the astronauts.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The amount of radiation used is small, akin to a mammogram, and the scans typically don’t need to be repeated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

“You can’t have chemo and radiation if you’re going to have a baby,” she said softly.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste