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Space.com
The proposed guideline would give all astronauts the same radiation limit, regardless of age and sex.
nuclear-news
A blue-ribbon panel has endorsed NASA’s plans to revise its standard for exposing astronauts to radiation in a way that would allow women to spend more time in space.
Wire
A Chinese-German team of researchers, using data from the Lunar Lander Neutrons and Dosimetry (LND) experiment onboard China’s Chang’e 4 lander on the Moon’s far side, has obtained the first-ever comprehensive radiation measurements from the Moon’s surface.
Axios
Researchers are working to find new ways to protect the human body from radiation in space in order to allow people to live far from Earth for years at a time.
STAT News
There are at least a dozen trials worldwide testing low-dose radiation therapy, or LDRT, as a treatment for pneumonia related to Covid-19, some spurred by the same historical data Calabrese and colleagues scoured years ago. The theory: Targeted radiation to the lungs will halt the out-of-control inflammation responsible for the devastating pneumonia that bookends the course of some Covid-19 patients.