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Would You Pay To Monitor Your Personal Environment For Boogeymen?
Radiation, nitrates and humidity — oh my! The Lapka Personal Environmental Monitor will be hitting store shelves late this year with a $US230 price tag. It will measure the amount of radiation and EMF fields penetrating your personal space, while tracking the amount of nitrates (residue from industrial fertilisers) covering your salad, as well as the current temperature and humidity.
Sunburn Is Your RNA Crying Out In Pain
Sunburn is painful, dangerous and embarrassing. But despite knowing it’s the body’s protective immune response to high levels of ultraviolet radiation, scientists weren’t exactly sure what the biological process behind it was. It turns out that it’s your ribonucleic acid (RNA) screaming out in pain — a finding that could help eliminate sunburn and other skin ailments for good.
There Is Now A Phone That Combines Pantone And Radiation Detectors
Gimmicky or not, Sharp is not averse to wedging weird and new(ish) technologies into its phones. As such, it has teamed up with Japanese mobile phone peddler Softbank to release a phone that not only has a radiation detector but comes in eight Pantone-certified colours.
Man Pulled Over For Being Too Radioactive
If you’re ever driving around after taking a nuclear stress test, like one man in Connecticut was, you better hope your doctor gave you a note, otherwise you’re gonna have a hard time explaining to cops why you set off their nuclear detectors. Oh, and did I mention cops have nuclear detectors???
Less Than 1% Of Base Stations In Australia Have Been Radiation Tested
For something that has been a massive source of concern for general public for decades, it doesn’t appear the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), responsible for “protecting the health and safety of people … from the harmful effects of ionising and non-ionising radiation”, is in much of a hurry to allay anyone’s fears.
Dental X-Rays Linked To The Most Common Brain Tumours
Cancer researchers have found that certain types of older dental X-rays may increase the incidence of the most common type of brain tumour in the United States: meningioma.
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