手机和其他电子设备的辐射 [图表]

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关于每天将手机放在头部旁边太长时间是否会对大脑造成电磁辐射威胁,再次引发争议。大量证据仍然表明不存在威胁。然而,许多人没有意识到,我们周围越来越多地被各种技术包围,这些技术在电磁频谱的相同射频部分发射辐射:WiFi路由器、蓝牙发射器等等

如上图所示,该区域发射的辐射是非电离辐射:它可能会加热体内的分子,但不会使其电离(即释放电子)。电离辐射可以分解分子,因此可能损害DNA,是更大的担忧。

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图表由杰罗尔德·布什伯格提供。经许可转载自杰罗尔德·布什伯格等人的《医学影像的本质物理学》第三版。© 利平科特·威廉姆斯和威尔金斯,2012年。

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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