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...argon, all of which can cause genetic diseases and gene mutations, not to mention iodine-131 (which causes thyroid cancer), strontium-90 (which causes leukemia and bone cancer), and cesium-137 (which causes muscle cancer). Then, of course, there is plutonium-239, which is so toxic that just one-millionth of a gram is carcinogenic. The United States has over 100 nuclear reactors, each of which produce about 200 kilograms of plutonium-239 per year. The bomb dropped on Nagasaki used 6.2 kilograms of plutonium...
...online encyclopedia called Wikipedia written entirely by anonymous experts donating their expertise. It has the unevenness you'd expect from anything that's user-created and user-edited, but it's still the most useful reference resource anywhere on- or off-line; earlier this month Wikipedia posted its 1 millionth article...
...think they have cause for concern; previous Bronzés movies did well in cinemas and were absorbed into French pop culture after TV broadcasts and retail sales took them to wider audiences, winning new generations of admirers. The new movie should reach break-even point when the 8 millionth viewer parks in a seat at the movie house to watch the fun. But neither Leconte nor Jugnot expect foreign audiences to queue round the block. "France's sense of humor and comedies just don't seem to globalize," says Leconte, "unless the Americans decide to remake them." Les Bronz...
Harvard has already established a foothold in the field of nanotechnology—the study and development of devices on the scale of a nanometer, which is one-millionth of a meter*. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu. CORRECTION *Due to an editing error, the Feb. 1 news article, “Bush Promises Boost for Science,” misstated the size of a nanometer. It is a billionth of a meter, not a millionth...