But by watching solar wind, weather forecasters may soon be able to predict solar storms more accurately, giving power companies enough notice to prevent dangerous surges of current to national power grids. Yet ecologists, wildlife biologists and governments alike are ignoring the main culprit for these catastrophic epidemics among wildlife-humans. In the 1950's she found that exposing pregnant mothers to X-rays doubled the risk of cancer in their children. This week Stewart, who is now 93 publishes new research supporting her claims that low doses of radiation might be harmful. In the week the world remembers the victims of the bombing of Hiroshima, Peter Hadfield urges Japan to come clean about its use of biological weapons.
Most scientists think that genetically modified foods are safe, yet the public remains uneasy.
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