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Monday, July 13, 2026

National/International

How could loosened radiation exposure rules affect public health?
7/10/2026 Scientific American
People living near nuclear facilities could bear the brunt of the rule change, experts say. "The ALARA levels that are currently employed are quite a bit lower than that 25 mrem a year for public exposures, so it's not necessarily apparent to me that they will continue to stay low without that regulatory pressure," says Amir Bahadori, director of the nuclear engineering program at Kansas State University.

Invasive Aoudad Threaten Native Bighorn Sheep Survival
7/11/2026 The Mirage, Australia
"The experiment showed us the lethality of aoudad-bighorn contacts, that some aoudad may pose a greater risk than others, and that aoudad populations across the Trans-Pecos carry different strains at different rates," said Dr. Logan Thomas, an assistant professor at Kansas State University and the study's lead author.

State/Regional

Kansas farmers turning to polluted water for crops
7/10/2026 The Wichita Eagle
Dorivar Ruiz Diaz is a professor of soil fertility and managing nutrients at Kansas State University. He said Kansas crops need nutrients like nitrogen to produce at a high level. "Good yielding corn, it could be in 180 to over 200 pounds of nitrogen (per acre)," Ruiz Diaz said. Things like nitrogen, sulfur and chloride used to be naturally present in soils across the prairie. But after decades of maximizing crop growth, those nutrients started disappearing. Now, farmers need to help the soil by adding nutrients back in. …Nathan Nelson, soil fertility professor with Kansas State University, said he encourages farmers to check their nitrate levels because this helps them financially, but it also helps the environment. "They can reduce the fertilizer bill and the fertilizer cost," he said. "At the same time, by doing that, we'll reduce nitrogen leaching and in the future we will have cleaner water."