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Senator Says Radioactive Shrimp Will Turn You Into the Alien From ‘Alien’

U.S. health officials have issued several recalls of shrimp in recent weeks over concerns about radioactive material. And now a sitting U.S. Senator has taken the opportunity to warn people in the most dire terms possible. With help from a visual aide, of course. Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, took to the Senate floor with a giant poster board featuring a screenshot from the classic 1979 film Alien on Wednesday. And he wants you to know that Americans are going to look like the

How Did Walmart Frozen Shrimp Become Contaminated With Radioactive Material?

As you've probably already heard, the Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall warning for bags of frozen shrimp sold under Walmart's "Great Value" brand over concerns about radioactive contamination. As the FDA explained in a statement, shipping containers and frozen shrimp parcels used by the Indonesia-based Walmart contractor BMS Foods tested positive for Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope and byproduct of nuclear fission. Though only a single shipment of the shrimp was found to cont

Four radioactive wasp nests found on South Carolina nuclear facility

Wasps living around a Cold War-era nuclear facility in South Carolina have built at least four radioactive nests, raising questions about their source of hazardous material and the extent of environmental contamination, according to a report by The New York Times. Last week, news broke that officials at the site—Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina—had found one radioactive nest on July 3. The discovery was documented in a July 22 report by the US Department of Energy, which own

The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris

The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris 3 days ago Share Save Sophie Hardach Share Save Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout (Credit: Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout) Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years after her groundbreaking work, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the lingering radioactive fingerprints she left behind. The Geiger counter starts flashing and buzzing as I hold it against the 100-year-ol