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Radioactivity

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The First Evidence of a Starburst on Earth - Michael Lemonick, New Yorker

Your atoms, and the atoms inside the family dog or the tree growing outside, came from the stars. This is old news to scientists, but it’s also somewhat hazy: when exactly those...

Nuclear Smoking: There's Uranium in Cigarettes - Deborah Blum, Wired

By the end of the 1920s, scientists already knew that tobacco smoke contained a small encyclopedia’s worth of risky chemical compounds: carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen...

What If a Radioactive Spider Bites You? - Katy Waldman, Slate

The Amazing Spider-Man, which retells the origins of Marvel’s wall-crawling superhero, hits theaters Tuesday. In the comic, a bite from a radioactive spider gives Peter Parker...

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