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NASA and ESA Trace Mysterious Lunar Flashes to Meteors and Gas Leaks
Transient Lunar Phenomena are mysterious bursts and glows observed on the Moon, lasting from milliseconds to hours. NASA and ESA research show that these events often result from meteoroid impacts, radon gas outgassing, and dust charged by solar wind, illuminating the Moon’s dynamic surface in surprising ways.
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Ștefania Mărăcineanu Honoured With Google Doodle Celebrating the Romanian Physicist's 140th Birthday
Ștefania Mărăcineanu, a Romanian physicist, has been honoured on her 140th birthday with a Google doodle. Mărăcineanu’s PhD thesis was on polonium, an element that physicist Marie Curie discovered. She never received global recognition for her contribution to the discovery of artificial radioactivity.
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No Radioactive Substance Found In Sunanda Pushkar's Body: FBI Report
Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor, did not die due to poisoning by polonium or any other radioactive substance, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US has concluded.
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Polonium Used to Poison Russian Spy May Have Harmed Londoners: Inquiry
An unknown number of Londoners might have been put at risk by the 2006 poisoning of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with a radioactive isotope, which amounted to "a nuclear attack on the streets" of the British capital, an inquiry heard on Thursday.
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"I Am Stunned," Says Shashi Tharoor. Read His Full Statement.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said that he is stunned to know that his wife Sunanda Pushkar was poisoned, and that a murder case has been filed by the police.
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Iconic Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat's Death: Natural Causes or Poisoning?
Did he die naturally or was he poisoned by polonium? A look at 10 years of research since the mysterious death of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinians' iconic national leader.
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Yasser Arafat did not die of poisoning, French tests conclude
Yasser Arafat was not the victim of poisoning, French forensic scientists concluded on Tuesday, countering a Swiss report on the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader that found he was probably killed with radioactive polonium.
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Old assumptions questioned in Yasser Arafat's mysterious death
President Yasser Arafat's spartan bedroom remains largely as he left it in 2004, when he flew off to France for treatment for a mystery illness only to return home two weeks later in a coffin.
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Yasser Arafat ingested deadly polonium: Swiss lab
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ingested lethal radioactive polonium before his death nine years ago, and it could not have been by accident, Swiss scientists said on Thursday.
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Israel says did not poison Yasser Arafat
Israel said on Thursday it did not poison Yasser Arafat, making the denial after the Palestinian leader's widow said Swiss forensic tests had proven he died from radioactive polonium poisoning in 2004.
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NASA and ESA Trace Mysterious Lunar Flashes to Meteors and Gas Leaks
Transient Lunar Phenomena are mysterious bursts and glows observed on the Moon, lasting from milliseconds to hours. NASA and ESA research show that these events often result from meteoroid impacts, radon gas outgassing, and dust charged by solar wind, illuminating the Moon’s dynamic surface in surprising ways.
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Ștefania Mărăcineanu Honoured With Google Doodle Celebrating the Romanian Physicist's 140th Birthday
Ștefania Mărăcineanu, a Romanian physicist, has been honoured on her 140th birthday with a Google doodle. Mărăcineanu’s PhD thesis was on polonium, an element that physicist Marie Curie discovered. She never received global recognition for her contribution to the discovery of artificial radioactivity.
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No Radioactive Substance Found In Sunanda Pushkar's Body: FBI Report
Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor, did not die due to poisoning by polonium or any other radioactive substance, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US has concluded.
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Polonium Used to Poison Russian Spy May Have Harmed Londoners: Inquiry
An unknown number of Londoners might have been put at risk by the 2006 poisoning of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with a radioactive isotope, which amounted to "a nuclear attack on the streets" of the British capital, an inquiry heard on Thursday.
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"I Am Stunned," Says Shashi Tharoor. Read His Full Statement.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said that he is stunned to know that his wife Sunanda Pushkar was poisoned, and that a murder case has been filed by the police.
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Iconic Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat's Death: Natural Causes or Poisoning?
Did he die naturally or was he poisoned by polonium? A look at 10 years of research since the mysterious death of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinians' iconic national leader.
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Yasser Arafat did not die of poisoning, French tests conclude
Yasser Arafat was not the victim of poisoning, French forensic scientists concluded on Tuesday, countering a Swiss report on the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader that found he was probably killed with radioactive polonium.
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Old assumptions questioned in Yasser Arafat's mysterious death
President Yasser Arafat's spartan bedroom remains largely as he left it in 2004, when he flew off to France for treatment for a mystery illness only to return home two weeks later in a coffin.
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Yasser Arafat ingested deadly polonium: Swiss lab
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ingested lethal radioactive polonium before his death nine years ago, and it could not have been by accident, Swiss scientists said on Thursday.
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Israel says did not poison Yasser Arafat
Israel said on Thursday it did not poison Yasser Arafat, making the denial after the Palestinian leader's widow said Swiss forensic tests had proven he died from radioactive polonium poisoning in 2004.
