“Users should not take ore samples out of their jars, for they tend to flake and crumble and you would run the risk of having radioactive ore spread out in your laboratory.” Such was the warning that came with the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, a 1950s science kit that included four small jars of actual uranium.… Lire la suite Fun and uranium

Minisatellites

M.1996-3

In 1996 Dubrova and others published a paper which showed an increased rate of mutations in the minisatellite35 genome.36 Children, who had been born between February and September 1994 in the Mogilev region, whose fathers and mothers had always lived in the villages of Bykhov, Krasnopolye and Cherikov, were examined by means of DNA fingerprinting… Lire la suite Minisatellites