Radiation

Radiation still seeping from Soviet‑era titanium nuclear attack sub

Monitoring teams report elevated radiation levels in surrounding waters near the wreck site.

A Soviet submarine.
View of the nuclear reactor in Dimona, Southern Israel. August 13, 2016.

What would a radioactive leak from Dimona mean for southern Israel? - explainer

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA.

Nvidia unveils new hardware in push for data centers in space

Cooling towers at the former Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant during a tour by Constellation Energy in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, US, June 25, 2025

US to offer incentives to states for nuclear waste storage, building nuclear reactors


Has the time come to give up on gel manicures?

Recently, it was revealed that devices for drying gel polish can change one's DNA. How much should you worry, and is there a safe manicure technique?

Is there a safer way to paint your nails besides gel manicures? (Illustrative image of woman drying nails under UV light)

For the first time in Israel: Breakthrough cancer treatment employed in Holon

The treatment involved the injection of a radioactive substance called Oncosil into a patient diagnosed with advanced-stage pancreatic cancer. 

This innovative pancreatic cancer treatment is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a breakthrough technology, and so far about 250 cancer patients throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

What really happens during a nuclear attack?

World Health Organization: “In the case of nuclear war, no amount of help from the health profession would be adequate to meet the devastating health needs.”

 A 23 -kiloton tower shot called BADGER, fired on April 18, 1953, at the Nevada Test Site, as part of the Operation Upshot–Knothole nuclear test series. (Photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration/Nevada Site Office)

Apply lacquer gel on your nails? You could be damaging your DNA - study

California researchers found that the use of these UV-emitting devices for just one 20-minute session caused the death of 20% to 30% of cells.

 Researchers at University of California San Diego studied the UV light-emitting devices used to cure gel manicures, and found that the chronic use of these nail polish drying machines is damaging to human cells

Amino acids, building blocks of life, formed in space by gamma rays - study

A fist-of-its-kind study exposed inorganic material to gamma rays and saw them form amino acids. This could have also happened in space.

 Artistic rendition of two short gamma-ray bursts in a collapsing star.

IDF soldiers who work with radar, Iron Dome at risk of cancer - study

The team suggested that IDF soldiers working with Hawk missiles, David’s sling batteries, Iron Dome, Arrow missiles and Patriot batteries could all expose them to excessive radiation. 

 Dividing cancer cell

If Putin uses nuclear weapons, how can we treat radiation poisoning?

A Haifa company named Pluristem has been researching ARS for years and found a way to cope. 

 A geiger counter measures a radiation level at a site of fire burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, outside the village of Rahivka.

NASA's Artemis I Mission set to launch with Israeli radiation experiment

Israel's StemRad vest is being tested onboard NASA's Orion spacecraft in the Artemis I Mission to see if it can protect astronauts from space radiation on future Moon missions.

 Mankin torsos Zohar and Helga will take part in testing Israel's StemRad vests on NASA's Artemis I Mission (Illustrative).

Scientists capture massive cosmic explosion from neutron star merger - study

Gamma-ray bursts are some of the brightest, most energetic and most powerful types of explosions that can occur, releasing as much power as a Sun's lifetime in a few seconds.

 This artist's conception shows the merger between a neutron star and another star (seen as a disk, lower left) which caused an explosion resulting in the short-duration gamma-ray burst, GRB 211106A (white jet, middle).

A third of Russians believe Sun revolves around Earth - survey

One in five Russians believes that humans coexisted with dinosaurs.

 The solar system (Illustrative).