• more about #radiation
    Sockatume: Fun as looking at mutants is, several of those "radioactive disasters"... aren't. Plenty of the bugs were gathered up from areas that happen to be nea... more »
    nearscrape: These things seem to get a lot of attention if they are found near a place like Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, but it's not uncommon even far from an... more »
    Alizarin: Well. This makes me want to walk into traffic. Interesting to be sure. But man, I have lost a little of my will to live. Poor things. more »
    silentstriderm: Real holographic simulated evil Lincoln is back!!! more »
    gorehound: The Sex Room Will Not Be Telivised more »
    Boas_MC: This is seriously cool stuff. I love that folks are working on bringing more of our senses into media play. It'll be interesting to see how they event... more »
    JamalPullus: That pic is from Voyager's holodeck and not from the Enterprise. Thats Captain Gateway and the hologram Doctor from Voyager. more »
    evildead1971: ok, i'm setting my cryogenic tube for 1,000 years. more »
    ManchuCandidate: Oh come on! We know where this is going... SEX!!! BTW screw (figuratively) holograms!!!! Where's my sexbot? more »
    atrus123: Hopefully android technology will advance quicker than tactile holography technology, so that when Moriarty does show up, we'll be able to call upon C... more »
    twophrasebark: Strangely, though, according to Hajduch the vegetation "tastes like chicken." more »
    Mount_Prion: I knew a kid back in summer camp who was near enough to Chernobyl to be effected by the radiation. His only special power was that he had no pubes, an... more »
    Mount_Prion: Oh man am I happy this came up on img search: more »
    Anekanta - Go Play!: So, will these plants give me superpowers? more »
    ♠ Final ♠: Oh and one more thing. If you are worried about radiation... make sure you're not fat. I'm not being mean, I'm not trying to beat up on people that do... more »
    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Oh yeah this whole thing reminded me of this from the very hit or miss flick The Ten. This is more hit. more »
    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: My dad is a doc and told me that when a doctor automatically has you get test like this done then they probably aren't very good at diagnosing things ... more »
    twDarkflame: ""There is a fundamental problem when the person ordering the study has a direct financial interest in maximizing the use of a particular piece of equ... more »
  • #radioactiveart

    The Mutant Art of Radioactive Insects

    Science illustrator Cornelia Hesse-Honegger records mutations of insects found near radioactive disasters, including Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Her watercolors offer a rarely-seen view on the long-lasting effects of radioactive contamination on living beings. More »
  • #holograms

    Touchable Holograms Bring the Holodeck One Step Closer

    Sure, the characters in the Enterprise's holodeck would occasionally try to kill you, but when they worked, the tactile holograms looked like incredible fun. Now researchers are getting closer, creating holograms that can be felt and respond to human touch. More »
  • #botanyinspace

    Thank Chernobyl For First Space Plants?

    Apparently, it's not all downsides to the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor; the intergalactic future of plant life may already exist on Earth, thanks to the effects of radioactive fallout from the 1986 disaster. More »
  • #madmedicine

    Is Your Doctor Exposing You to Too Much Radiation?

    A new study released this week shows that medical imaging scans expose patients to seven times more radiation than they did twenty years ago. Could a scan for cancer actually be giving you cancer? More »
  • #extremelife

    Meet the Tardigrades: The Solar System's Most Extreme Survivors

    There is an organism living on this planet who can travel through space without a suit. Cute, unassuming little invertebrates, these organisms are called tardigrades, or water bears, and usually spend their days crawling around on a piece of nice wet moss in a forest, or meandering through our vast oceans. They only grow to be about 1.5 millimeters long, but over 1,000 species of them inhabit the planet, and they all have a superpower unmatched by any other species on Earth. No now knows why, but tardigrades can withstand temperatures as cold as liquid nitrogen, radiation doses that would kill a human 100 times over, thrive in an outer-space-like vacuum, and survive without water for years. More »
  • #madengineering

    RadBall Creates 3D Radiation Maps

    The salvage crew is ready to board a wreck drifting off Reticulum when the engineer calls over the comm: radiation detected. They pop the airlock and pull out a translucent green ball that fits in the palm of a hand. Fitting it into a spherical metal sheath that's perforated like a colander, they toss it onto the derelict ship, then pull back and wait. Eventually they retreive the little ball, analyze it with a computer, and get a 3D map of all nearby radiation sources. This strange device is called RadBall, and it's already been invented. More »
  • #megageophysics

    Is Earth's Magnetic Field Failing Us?

  • #retrofuturism

    In the 1970s, You May Wear Your Phone - Thanks to Radiation! (1960)

  • #radiation

    One Pill Could Cure Radiation Sickness