About the Authors

Federico Bernardini

fbernard@ictp.it

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Laboratory, “Abdus Salam” International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

Claudio Tuniz

Affiliations Multidisciplinary Laboratory, “Abdus Salam” International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, Centre for Archaeological Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Alfredo Coppa

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biology, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

Lucia Mancini

Affiliation Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., AREA Science Park, Basovizza (Trieste), Italy

Diego Dreossi

Affiliation Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., AREA Science Park, Basovizza (Trieste), Italy

Diane Eichert

Affiliation Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., AREA Science Park, Basovizza (Trieste), Italy

Gianluca Turco

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Matteo Biasotto

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Filippo Terrasi

Affiliation CIRCE, INNOVA and Department of Environmental Sciences, 2nd University of Naples, Caserta, Italy

Nicola De Cesare

Affiliation CIRCE, INNOVA and Department of Life Sciences, 2nd University of Naples, Caserta, Italy

Quan Hua

Affiliation Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia

Vladimir Levchenko

Affiliation Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB CT. Performed the experiments: FB MB NDC DD DE QH VL LM FT CT GT. Analyzed the data: FB MB AC NDC DD DE QH VL LM FT CT GT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FB MB NDC DD DE QH VL LM FT CT GT. Wrote the paper: FB AC CT.