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From toothpaste to dinnerware to your grandfather's watch, many of the everyday products sold as ordinary consumer goods were quietly emitting real radiation — and some of them are…
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In 2014, a council in North Wales declared the seaside village of Fairbourne would have to be abandoned by 2054 due to rising seas. A decade later, the residents…
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From breakfast cereals to fast food meat, things sold every day on US grocery shelves are illegal to sell in the EU, Japan, and other countries — usually because…
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In August 1986, a crater lake in northwestern Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide that suffocated entire villages in their sleep. Scientists are still working to make sure…
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Rjukan sits in Tinn Municipality, in the Telemark region of southern Norway, roughly 110 miles west of Oslo. The town was built almost from scratch starting in 1907,…
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A Saturday morning in 1978 had a rhythm that almost no American family follows today. Kids woke before their parents to watch the network cartoon block. Dad drove to…