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An 18-year, 700-plus county study from Oregon State University found a link between exposure to radon gas and childhood ...
In response to recent reports about potential radioactive contamination near Luckey, the Ohio EPA on Wednesday conducted ...
Winning entries have been selected by the Wyoming Department of Health for its annual youth radon poster contest, which is intended to help Wyoming families learn about potential ...
THIS is a small manual suitable for medical men, giving in a concise form an account of the physical phenomena of radio-activity and the therapeutic uses of radium. For the physical part of the ...
For decades, people living in the shadow of a massive Cold War weapons plant on the edge of town have wondered if there might ...
The Blade hired an accredited private lab to conduct the testing. The radioactivity detected was primarily bismuth-214, which decays from the radioactive gas radon-222. Experts agree that high levels ...
Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early 20th-century Paris ...
On March 26, 2025, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte rescinded the Directive on Standardization of Enterprise Radon Policies (No. 2022-727) and removed the 2022 Radon ...
The culprit is often radon, an odorless, colorless radioactive gas found in soil, rock and sometimes water. Radon is responsible for about 21,000 lung cancer deaths every year, according to the ...
A bill that would provide tax credits for the purchase and installation of radon mitigation systems and require passive mitigation in new construction, advanced Wednesday from the House floor.