{"id":11289,"date":"2023-08-22T14:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/22\/tortoise-shells-can-yield-information-on-nuclear-contamination-scientists-find\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:38:10","slug":"tortoise-shells-can-yield-information-on-nuclear-contamination-scientists-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/22\/tortoise-shells-can-yield-information-on-nuclear-contamination-scientists-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortoise shells can yield information on nuclear contamination, scientists find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers focused on turtles and tortoises from sites of nuclear tests<\/p>\n<p>Tortoise and turtle shells can be used to study nuclear contamination, scientists have found.<\/p>\n<p>Just as tree rings can provide snapshots of the Earth\u2019s climate, and ice cores can give us information on past temperature, researchers found that the layers of shells can be used as a time stamp of periods with nuclear fallout.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/22\/tortoise-shells-can-yield-information-on-nuclear-contamination-scientists-find\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6f65fc4851e0df664a4329a9e03db08ccfe66b4c\/0_143_5420_3252\/master\/5420.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9d89be6184edf02bf2f620e3beb6d641\" title=\"Tortoise shells can yield information on nuclear contamination, scientists find\" \/>Researchers focused on turtles and tortoises from sites of nuclear tests<br \/>\nTortoise and turtle shells can be used to study nuclear contamination, scientists have found.<br \/>\nJust as tree rings can provide snapshots of the Earth\u2019s climate, and ice cores can give us information on past temperature, researchers found that the layers of shells can be used as a time stamp of periods with nuclear fallout. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers focused on turtles and tortoises from sites of nuclear tests Tortoise and turtle shells can be used to study nuclear contamination, scientists have found. Just as tree rings can provide snapshots of the Earth\u2019s climate, and ice cores can give us information on past temperature, researchers found that the layers of shells can be &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/22\/tortoise-shells-can-yield-information-on-nuclear-contamination-scientists-find\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tortoise shells can yield information on nuclear contamination, scientists find<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}