As part of an experiment on iron absorption, 21 Indian women had been fed chapatis baked with radioactive isotopes. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images When details about a scientific study in the ...

For decades the MoD has denied using unwitting servicemen as “guinea pigs” in radiation experiments during the race to build a nuclear bomb. But the widow of one Cold War pilot has blown that claim ...

Ministers have failed to deny that British and Commonwealth troops were deliberately exposed to radiation during Cold War weapons tests. They have told Parliament that they do not know whether ...

The Ministry of Defence has admitted it used Australian servicemen in radiation experiments in the 1950s. The men were ordered to run, walk and crawl across contaminated areas but the MoD says they ...

A university building linked to a cluster of cancer deaths was at the centre of a new health scare today after researchers found traces of toxic mercury under the floorboards. Two rooms in the ...

Addendum: PBS is sitting on an important 90-minute film about the radiation experiments in the Marshall Islands titled "Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1" by Adam Horowitz. Please ...

A clip from a 1994 Newsnight programme in which the BBC's Peter Marshall investigates US radiation experiments on unwitting subjects during the Cold War era. Some of these test subjects were hospital ...

Four workers have been moved out of two rooms in the Rutherford Building at Manchester University after tests revealed the "likely presence" of mercury under floorboards. The university has been ...

Radiation from experiments carried out at a university more than 100 years ago may be responsible for a cluster of cancer deaths. An investigation has been ordered after three academics and a young ...

An Esa experiment carried out by astronauts on the ISS has found the cosmos is less hostile to space travellers than expected. It had been thought that cosmic radiation may severely limit the time an ...