Examples for Analysis! - Chemistry 409 - Chemistry & Society (UNH Durham)

Selected Websites

Radiation Answers
Answers to questions about radiation and you, a website published by the Health Physics Society, "a nonprofit scientific professional organization whose mission is excellence in the science and practice of radiation safety."
Cell Phones and Cancer Risk Fact Sheet - National Cancer Institute
One of several fact sheets on cancer risk factors provided by the National Cancer Institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Selected Scientific Research Article and its evolution

Effects of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Signal Exposure on Brain Glucose Metabolism
Volkow, N. D., Tomasi, D., Wang, G.-J., Vaska, P., Fowler, J. S., Telang, F., Wong, C. (2011). Effects of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Signal Exposure on Brain Glucose Metabolism. JAMA : The Journal of the American Medical Association, 305(8), 808–813. http://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.186
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There is also a version of this article on PMC.
Lai H, Hardell L. Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation Exposure and Brain Glucose Metabolism. JAMA. 2011;305(8):828-829. doi:10.1001/jama.2011.201
Editorial response to the research article above (N. Volkow et al. 2011). If you are off-campus, this link may prompt for your UNH userID and password in order to view the full article.
Cellphone Use Tied to Changes in Brain Activity
Scientific journalism: Newspaper article based on the Volkow et a. 2011 article (New York Times)

An aspect of scientific communication is citation, which shows how knowledge is transferred and built upon. This article by Voslow et al. (2011) cited 36 references. It has been cited at least 81 times in notable scientific journals since it was published.