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Mercury Has a Radiation Belt After All—But It’s Super Wonky (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: mercury, radiation belt, magnetic field

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Intel's new space-grade Starfire chip is a Panther Lake SoC that puts an 18A CPU into orbit — chip designed for the US government leverages Intel 3 for the GPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-13 | by Luke James | tags: built, cores, intel

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Trump Administration Scrapping Nuclear Energy Rules Requiring Plants to Keep Radiation Levels “As Low as Reasonably Achievable” (futurism.com)

2026-07-12 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: energy, hill, nuclear

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Influencers Are Promoting $50 Straws They Claim Will Protect Against Electromagnetic Radiation (wired.com)

2026-07-09 | by Ej Dickson | tags: frequency, instagram, products

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Shoebox-Sized 'Detector Satellites' Could Sniff Out a Nuclear Bomb In Space (slashdot.org)

2026-07-09 | tags: danagoulian, neutron, nuclear

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NRC is (sort of) getting rid of "as low as reasonably achievable" standard (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-06 | tags: impact, nuclear, power

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans really minor changes to safety regs (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-06 | tags: impact, nuclear, proposed new

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Backreaction of stimulated Hawking radiation in an optical analogue (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-01 | by Procopio | get Optical Analog Hawking Radiation Kit → | tags: hawking radiation, optical analogue, black hole

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Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-29 | tags: sandia national labs, sa3000, 8085 cpu

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Lifelike biochemistry continued to unfold in sterilized soil (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-01 | by Siddhant Pusdekar | get Soil Microbiome Test Kit → | tags: biochemistry, soil microbiome, gamma radiation

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The Dirt That Refused to Die (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-01 | by Siddhant Pusdekar | get Microbial Soil Remediation Kit → | tags: soil microbiome, gamma radiation, carbon dioxide

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Vanishing tongues and life on Mars: Books in brief (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-22 | by Robinson | get Mars colonization kit → | tags: indigenous languages, mars colonization, scott solomon

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Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-18 | get SETI Institute Radio Telescope → | tags: marconi, radio bubble, electromagnetic radiation

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Build a Radio Wave Detector with Balls of Aluminum Foil (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-15 | by Rhett Allain | get Aluminum Foil Radio Wave Detector → | tags: radio waves, aluminum foil, electromagnetic radiation

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Build a Radio Wave Detector With Balls of Aluminum Foil! (wired.com)

2026-05-15 | by Rhett Allain | get Aluminum Foil Radio Wave Detector → | tags: radio waves, aluminum foil, electromagnetic radiation

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NASA’s new AI space chip could let spacecraft think for themselves (sciencedaily.com)

2026-05-15 | get NASA AI Space Chip → | tags: nasa, high performance spaceflight computing, radiation-hardened processor

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Scientists to return to Fukushima — this time to study disaster recovery (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-30 | by Fieldhouse | get Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor Model → | tags: fukushima, radiation, nuclear accident

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Chernobyl Wildlife Forty Years On (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | by It'S Years Since The Chernobyl Disaster. This Is What It Has Meant For Wildlife Living Around The Devastated Nuclear Power Plant. | get Chernobyl Wildlife Documentary Book → | tags: chernobyl, nuclear disaster, doñana biological station

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Chernobyl's last wedding (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-19 | get Chernobyl Wedding Photo Book → | tags: chernobyl, exclusion zone, red forest

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New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-13 | by Aaron Klotz | get Terahertz Radiation Detector → | tags: adelaide university, terahertz radiation, vector network analyzer

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MIT Radiation Laboratory (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-12 | get MIT Radiation Laboratory Book → | tags: mit radiation laboratory, cavity magnetron, world war ii

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Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | get NASA Artemis Moon Lamp → | tags: nasa, artemis ii, moon

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Researchers build Wi-Fi chip that can operate inside a nuclear reactor — receiver uses special materials and design to withstand high doses of radiation for at least six months (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-03 | by Jowi Morales | get Radiation-Resistant Wi-Fi Module → | tags: wifi chip, nuclear reactor, radiation-hardened

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The Moon Astronauts Brought Along USB Stick-Sized Living Samples of Their Own Tissue (futurism.com)

2026-04-03 | by Joe Wilkins | get NASA Lunar Tissue Kit → | tags: nasa, artemis ii, organ chips

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The Trump Administration Is Doing Something Horrifying to Workers at Nuclear Facilities (futurism.com)

2026-04-01 | by Joe Wilkins | get Nuclear Safety Emergency Kit → | tags: nuclear regulatory commission, doe, plutonium

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Daily briefing: The countdown to NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission launch (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Graham | get NASA Artemis Moon Puzzle → | tags: nasa, artemis, moon

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Daily briefing: NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission launches (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Graham | get NASA Artemis Moon Mission Model → | tags: nasa, artemis ii, moon mission

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Data From Chinese Moon Lander Shows Signs of Peculiar Radiation “Cavity” (futurism.com)

2026-03-29 | by Victor Tangermann | get Radiation Detection Geiger Counter → | tags: china's chang'e-4, nasa artemis 2, lunar radiation

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Sunken Soviet Submarine Is Quietly Leaking Radiation Decades Later, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-23 | get Radiation Leak Detector Kit → | tags: soviet submarine, nuclear reactor, russian authorities

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DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-21 | get DogeCoin Cryptocurrency Wallet → | tags: dogecoin, silicon valley, nuclear power