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The compound produced brilliant reds and oranges, which were appealing attributes, if not for the radiation they emitted.
Of course, radiation was something we were unaware of until the late 1800s, let alone the associated cancer risks, which we discovered much later.
If you want a glimpse of Marie Curie's manuscripts, you'll have to sign a waiver and put on protective gear to shield yourself from radiation contamination.
Madame Curie's remains, too, were interred in a lead-lined coffin, keeping the radiation that was the heart of her research, and likely the cause of her death, well contained.
In 1896, Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium spontaneously emitted a mysterious X-ray-like radiation that could interact with photographic film.
Curie soon found that the element thorium emitted similar radiation.
Most importantly, the strength of the radiation depended solely on the element's quantity, and was not affected by physical or chemical changes.
This led her to conclude that radiation was coming from something fundamental within the atoms of each element.
Next, by focusing on a super radioactive ore called pitchblende, the Curies realized that uranium alone couldn't be creating all the radiation.
She opened mobile radiology units during World War I, and investigated radiation's effects on tumors.
Curie died in 1934 of a bone marrow disease, which many today think was caused by her radiation exposure.
For good or ill, her discoveries in radiation launched a new era, unearthing some of science's greatest secrets.
And so, if we were to dump any of us on Mars right this minute, even given ample food, water, air and a suit, we are likely to experience very unpleasant health problems from the amount of ionizing radiation that bombards the surface of planets like Mars that have little or nonexistent atmosphere.
It is known to be able to withstand cold, dehydration, vacuum, acid, and, most notably, radiation.
While its radiation tolerance mechanisms are known, we have yet to adapt the relevant genes to mammals.
There are many facets that go into its radiation tolerance, and it's not as simple as transferring one gene.
Even if we borrow just a fraction of its ability to tolerate radiation, it would be infinitely better than what we already have, which is just the melanin in our skin.
Using the tools of synthetic biology, we can harness Deinococcus radiodurans' ability to thrive under otherwise very lethal doses of radiation.
You're about to go under chemotherapy or under radiation, so you save these things.
There is too much solar radiation and too much radiation from cosmic rays.
It will keep us together, block radiation and keep us warm.
We get more protection from radiation, more atmosphere makes us warmer, makes the planet warmer, so we get running water and that makes crops possible.
And there you see unification, because matter particles, electrons and quarks, radiation particles, photons, gravitons, are all built up from one entity.
He had a stroke, he had brain surgery, radiation, chemotherapy.
More recently, at Einstein University, they just determined that fungi use radiation as a source of energy, much like plants use light.
In other words, the harm that's caused isn't actually caused by the machines or the radiation.
We do know that if you expose our bodies as they currently are to a lot of radiation, we will die.
Maybe you splice in Deinococcus radiodurans so that the cells can resplice after a lot of exposure to radiation.
The UV radiation from the sun destroys the DNA of these harmful pathogens and decontaminates the water.
But photocatalysts like titanium dioxide are actually commonly used in sunscreens to block UV radiation.
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