Three in five pregnant women showed signs of an iodine deficiency, which is essential for baby brain development, a new Irish study has shown. A team from University College Cork (UCC) found that ...

60% of participants had insufficient iodine intake. The average urinary iodine concentration (UIC) was 125µg/L, below the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended level of 150µg/L for pregnancy.

Managing radioactive waste is one of the core challenges in the use of nuclear energy. In particular, radioactive iodine poses serious environmental and health risks due to its long half-life (15. ...

From HSE, tips for a healthy pregnancy from healthcare professionals including a midwife and a GP But our research has found that 60% of pregnant women had insufficient iodine intake. The study ...

Iodine-stabilized single-longitudinal-mode laser enhances atmospheric sensing and environmental monitoring by Zhang Nannan, Chinese Academy of Sciences edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan ...

Australian researchers have developed a new dry electrode fabrication strategy for aqueous zinc-iodine batteries. They say it delivers cathodes with more than double the performance of iodine and ...

"We have developed a new electrode technique for zinc –iodine batteries that avoids traditional wet mixing of iodine," said the University of Adelaide's Professor Shizhang Qiao, Chair of ...

From right: Professor Ho Jin Ryu, Dr. Sujeong Lee and Dr. Juhwan Noh. Scientists may have finally found a solution to tackle the problem of radioactive iodine, one of nuclear energy’s most ...

A new dry electrode technology boosts zinc–iodine battery performance and stability, potentially reshaping how we store energy at scale. Credit: Shutterstock A dry-process zinc-iodine battery from ...