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radiation

[ray-dee-ay-shuhn] / ˌreɪ diˈeɪ ʃən /




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The results indicate that less detailed models may underestimate how strongly stellar radiation and complex chemical processes affect the gas surrounding galaxies.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Study co-lead Professor Rachel Neale said the research was the first in Australia to examine what happens when human skin is exposed to levels of UV radiation that naturally occur at the Earth's surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Still, space-based data centers face many challenges, from costs to radiation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

As the investigation expanded, researchers combined other X-ray methods, including synchrotron radiation at the Canadian Light Source, with microscopy.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

And unlike Laura, who’d had surgery and chemo and now radiation to get better, his mom hadn’t even stayed in the hospital even though she would lose him if she left.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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 fossil record shows several adaptive radiations in the horse lineage, which is now much reduced to only one genus, Equus, with several species.

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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