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Trouble: In Parts of Bihar, the Amount of Arsenic in Atta Is on the Rise

Sarah Iqbal 30/12/2019

Scientists are tracking arsenic contamination in various food items...

Ernest Rutherford, proton, Large Hadron Collider, particle physics, quark model, Murray Gell-Mann, George Zweig, quantum chromodynamics, strong nuclear force, string theory, SLAC, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, glasma, quark gluon plasma, gluon, parton distribution functions, colour glass condensate, spin crisis,

Nuclear Goes Retro – With a Much Greener Outlook

M. Mitchell Waldrop, Knowable Magazine 01/08/2019

Returning to designs abandoned in the 1970s, start-ups are...

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Vast Amounts of Illegally Mined Atomic Mineral Found in Tamil Nadu

Sandhya Ravishankar 12/01/2019

A court-ordered report has raised red flags over stocks...

Apart from uranium, the wells tested in Gujarat and Rajasthan also contained significant amounts of fluorides and nitrates. Representative image. Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave

Groundwater in Northwest India Has a Uranium Contamination Problem

Lakshmi Supriya 25/06/2018

Unlike the limits for arsenic and other toxic metals...

Tailing deposits outside the Orissa Sands Complex in Chatrapur district. Credit: Ranjana Padhi and Rajinder Singh Negi

Kidney Disease Stalks Rural Odisha, Suspicions Turn to Monazite Mining

Ranjana Padhi and Rajender Singh Negi 25/10/2017

It is well known that monazite-mining adversely impacts human...