Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, a city in northern Ukraine that was evacuated and abandoned after the ...

Local experts said patients should be aware of the radiation risks of CT scans but not shy away from the technology, which ...

MRI scanners instead use powerful magnets to send radio waves through the body to create images. Both enable highly detailed pictures of the human ... with radiation exposure, CT scans remain ...

Early on, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV ... Acute HIV symptoms develop within two to four weeks after HIV exposure. During this stage, HIV quickly multiplies and spreads throughout the ...

The human toll of Uranium ... justice principles. Chernobyl Monument and Reactor. Image via Openverrse. Uranium City has inadvertently become an important site for scientific research on long-term ...

To many, the notion of a radioactive zone from which 116,000 people were evacuated evokes images ... to radiation) and others suggesting that Chernobyl is a wildlife haven. This lack of scientific ...

Tanks and trucks that hold brine accumulate a highly radioactive sludge at levels that can be tens of thousands of times greater than background radiation levels ... at the site is uncontrolled” and ...

The government warned anyone nearby to stay indoors to avoid exposure ... is likely that the level of radiation increased sharply due to a fire at Unit 4," Edano said. "Now we are talking about levels ...

Pluri and its partners in the government were planning to show the efficacy of the human placenta-derived stromal cell therapy when given to animals at least 24 hours after radiation exposure.

The uplift is due to the "quiet Chernobyl" environmental disaster that ... Credit: Eddie Gerald/Getty Images "The Aral Sea, although never particularly deep, was wide enough in its heyday for ...