radiation
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The Eddington limit is a theoretical benchmark describing the point at which the outward pressure produced by radiation balances the inward pull of gravity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Mr. Kennedy said in 2024 that “Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Standing near a radiation monitoring tower and an alarm post, 15-year-old Mohammad Nafiz said he saw little to fear.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Large parts of the site became run-down and comparisons were made with the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, abandoned after the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant led to a huge radiation leak.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
He knew that, in order to protect his surviving daughter from the radiation the plant might release, he had to abandon the faint sliver of hope that one of those swept away could have survived.
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
Within it are markers noting the evolutionary appearance of various characteristics that jump-started major adaptive radiations.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
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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