Radiation

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Sciences & Technology

Go Figure

Would cockroaches really survive a nuclear apocalypse?

Cockroaches have a reputation for resilience, even when it comes to surviving a nuclear bomb and radiation - but would they really outlive us all?

Health & Medicine

Fukushima: The misery piles up

Five years on from the Fukushima nuclear disaster there is now an emerging thyroid cancer epidemic and 174,000 people are still displaced

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