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In this photo provided by NASA, Helga and Zohar, two female manikins in the Matroshka AstroRad Radiation Experiment investigation, undergo post-flight payload inspections, January 17, 2023, inside the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. (Kim Shiflett/NASA via AP)
August 13, 2026, 5:03 am
Vest that US-Israeli startup helped make can cut astronauts’ exposure in solar storms, study suggests
AstroRad vest, which was developed by StemRad and Lockheed Martin, is now displayed at Florida museum after being put on a manikin named Zohar during NASA’s first Artemis moonshot
By Marcia Dunn
A view of a crane that collapsed in the sea near Ashkelon, March 14, 2023, killing Israel Electric Corporation employee Nir Dekel, 54. (Flash90)
August 8, 2024, 7:15 pm
NGO calls for legislation to protect outdoor laborers from effects of climate change
The Workers’ Hotline fears rising temperatures, extreme weather events, will compound risks already faced in farming, sanitation, building, gardening, infrastructure work
By Sue Surkes
Hadassah Medical Center staff assist a head and neck cancer clinical trial patient before she undergoes proton therapy by the P-Cure, Modiin Israel, April 2023. (Courtesy of P-Cure)
May 18, 2023, 10:12 am
Proton therapy, touted as cancer killer without side effects, set for Israel debut
Hadassah Medical Center partners with Israeli company P-Cure in study comparing treatment with traditional X-ray radiation; Ichilov inks deal for first proton therapy center
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Alla Shapiro, April 2021 (Olga Shapiro)
April 26, 2021, 11:41 am
On 35th Chernobyl anniversary, 1st responder reflects on the day after disaster
Alla Shapiro’s new memoir, ‘Doctor on Call,’ traces her journey from the wake of nuclear chaos in Ukraine to a career in the US developing radiation countermeasures for FDA
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Staff stand within the United States Embassy facility in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. The United States issued an ominous warning to Americans on Friday to stay away from Cuba and ordered home more than half the U.S. diplomatic corps, acknowledging neither the Cubans nor America’s FBI can figure out who or what is responsible for months of mysterious health ailments. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
December 6, 2020, 12:03 pm
Microwave energy likely made US diplomats sick in Cuba, China — report
State Department-commissioned study says ‘directed, pulsed radio frequency energy’ the most plausible cause of mysterious illness among American personnel in 2016-2018
By AP
A woman receiving radiation therapy (iStock)
August 31, 2020, 5:43 pm
Reviving old therapy, Israeli doctors unleash lung radiation against COVID-19
The procedure, new to Israel, is generating hope among some doctors internationally, but others raise flag over possible cancer risk
By Nathan Jeffay
Israeli soldiers stand guard next to an Iron Dome defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, deployed along the border with the Gaza Strip on May 29, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
July 21, 2020, 12:23 pm
Kibbutz sues state over land grab, claims Iron Dome radiation hidden from them
Farmers say army appropriated property for missile defense system without compensation, didn’t reveal dangerous emissions from batteries; but no claim sought over any health damage
By ToI Staff
The nuclear power plant Olkiluoto 3 'OL3' under construction next to OL2 and OL1 nuclear reactors in Eurajoki, southwestern Finland, March 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Antti Aimo-Koivisto)
June 30, 2020, 11:24 am
UN says source of Nordic radioactivity still unclear, as Russia eyed
Moscow has yet to report back to International Atomic Energy Agency over high concentration of isotopes recorded in Finland, southern Scandinavia and the Arctic
By AP
A family watches explosions at a military ammunition depot near the city of Achinsk, Russia on Aug. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Dmitry Dub)
August 26, 2019, 3:29 pm
Russia admits radioactive isotopes were released in missile test accident
National weather agency says blast at military testing range, in which 5 scientists were killed, caused brief spike in radiation, but levels returned to normal hours later
By AFP
Lev Klotz, who was sent to Chernobyl as an 18-year-old Soviet army conscript, recalls the events of 33 years ago in a Channel 12 interview, June 13, 2019 (Channel 12 screenshot)
June 14, 2019, 3:49 am
‘They had no Plan A, no Plan B’ at Chernobyl, says ‘liquidator,’ now in Israel
Lev Klotz was an 18-year-old Soviet army conscript when his unit was dispatched six days after the reactor explosion. Four years later, he lost all his teeth and went bald
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A man talking on a cellphone. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
February 5, 2018, 3:22 am
Cancer from cellphones? New studies say no need to hang up
Latest research finds no hard evidence linking phone use to brain tumors; researchers says safe to speak with device next to ear
By Seth Borenstein and LAURAN NEERGAARD
Illustrative: Browsing on a phone (Frank Franklin II/AP)
February 3, 2016, 8:55 am
Cellphones may damage male fertility, Israeli study finds
Technion researchers see link between mobile use and drop in sperm count, recommend shorter calls and not carrying phone in pants pocket
By ToI Staff
The Baker nuclear test at Bikini Atoll on 24 July 1946. (US Department of Defense/Wikimedia Commons)
August 19, 2015, 8:51 am
The Israeli slowly poisoning herself to save us all from nuclear fallout
Professor Brenda Laster is so convinced her radical treatment might train the immune system to fight radiation’s effects, she’s taking it herself; other experts are far from persuaded
By Mitch Ginsburg
A first responder wears a StemRad belt (Screenshot)
August 3, 2015, 6:17 pm
Next stop Mars, with Israeli radiation protection
Together with Lockheed-Martin, StemRad is developing an enhanced version of its protective belt
By David Shamah
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