How Radiation Changes Your DNA
Radiation is all around us and a part of everyday life. But what exactly is it and what does it do to our bodies? Watch the premiere of Life After: Chernobyl, Tuesday, April 26 at 10/9c...
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What do your phone, the sun, the stove, far-off black-holes and the palm of your hands all have in common? Radiation, baby. It's everywhere. Up and atom friends, Trace here emitting and absorbing radiation at your eyeballs for DNews! When I say radiation, most people do this, but to be honest, radiation on it's own isn't necessarily harmful! The term radiation is super broad, gamma rays shooting out of stars is radiation, heat coming off the pavement on a hot day is radiation, and the radio waves picked up and emitted by cell phones, radio stations and WiFi networks are radiation too -- even the light you're seeing on this screen is radiation. The thing is, even though radio, microwave, visible and infrared, are technically radiation -- when we SA...
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What do your phone, the sun, the stove, far-off black-holes and the palm of your hands all have in common? Radiation, baby. It's everywhere. Up and atom friends, Trace here emitting and absorbing radiation at your eyeballs for DNews! When I say radiation, most people do this, but to be honest, radiation on it's own isn't necessarily harmful! The term radiation is super broad, gamma rays shooting out of stars is radiation, heat coming off the pavement on a hot day is radiation, and the radio waves picked up and emitted by cell phones, radio stations and WiFi networks are radiation too -- even the light you're seeing on this screen is radiation. The thing is, even though radio, microwave, visible and infrared, are technically radiation -- when we SA...
