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Frequency and distance of human travel follows universal pattern, mobile-phone data reveals

Physics World

Gravity and radiation. The radiation model adds the component of other places people could stop on their journeys: the less places there are to stop – to go shopping or to work, for example – the further people will travel. The data were collected during different periods between 2006 and 2013. Predictable and universal.

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New method predicts ‘stealth’ solar storms before they wreak geomagnetic havoc on Earth

Frontiers

This could help put measures in place that limit damage to technology and energy grids on Earth from the electromagnetic radiation. On 23 July 2012, humanity escaped technological and economic disaster. Palmerio and collaborators looked at four stealth CMEs that occurred between 2008 and 2016. Read original article ?

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The legacy of Liverpool’s forgotten synchrocyclotron

Physics World

During its first years of operation, it was the most powerful example of particle accelerator technology in operation in Europe. Construction time The synchrocyclotron’s single magnet being slowly moved into place partially underground to help with radiation shielding. m of concrete, behind which was approximately 3.7

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Public Comment Period Begins on EPA’s Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft)

Brag

EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) and Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), in consultation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment.

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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

Between 1996 and 2006, United Nations family planning spending declined 50 percent. They could have referred to radiation from receiving an x-ray, or from living in high-radiation places like Colorado, which are more emotionally neutral than Hiroshima. Seven years later, the U.N. held its last Family Planning meeting.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

µm in diameter, which include our black carbon particles of interest, have been shown to be particularly problematic because they can penetrate deep into the lungs and blood stream and cause cardiovascular and respiratory disease (Pope and Dockery, 2006; Brook et al., Particles that are less than 2.5 References Arctic Council. Arctic Council.

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Policy News: June 28, 2021

ESA

The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill. White House: The Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a request for information to help improve the effectiveness of federal scientific integrity policies.

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