The U.S. government has worked for decades and spent tens of billions of dollars in…
New Report Calls for Health Monitoring and Research Program on Gulf War and Post-9/11 Veterans
To help determine if the descendants of Gulf War and post-9/11 veterans are at risk for health effects resulting from the service members’ exposure to toxicants during deployment, a new report from…
Preventing Chemical Weapons as Sciences Converge
Alarming examples of the dangers from chemical weapons have been seen recently in the use of industrial chemicals and the nerve agent sarin against civilians in Syria, and in the targeted assassination…
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Why Women Rarely Reach Top Positions in Government
Gender stereotypes are the main reason why women rarely take up senior positions in the civil service, according to researchers from the Higher School of Economics Olga Isupova and Valeriya Utkina. Many…
Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure — New Report
The latest in a series of congressionally mandated biennial reviews of the evidence of health problems that may be linked to exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used during the Vietnam…
Levitating Particles Could Lift Nuclear Detective Work
Laser-based ‘optical tweezers’ could levitate uranium and plutonium particles, thus allowing the measurement of nuclear recoil during radioactive decay. This technique, proposed by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, provides a new…
