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* Temporary shortages of water and food * Evacuation of area near damaged nuclear reactors [More]

Crude oil. It’s really a stew of various hydrocarbons. And when the oil started spewing into the Gulf of Mexico last year, some stew ingredients were able to take to the air--in two distinct groupings.

Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt from a chapter in Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking (The Cooking Lab, 2011), a six-volume set consisting of 2,348 pages of text and photography. Scientific research on foodborne pathogens provides the foundation for all food safety rules.

Here's a test. It's an odd question…but do you tend to prefer the right side or the left side of anything?

First came the earthquake , centered just off the east coast of Japan, near Honshu. The horror of the tsunami quickly followed

* Waves brush U.S., Mexico after thousands evacuated * Floods in parts of Latin America, little major damage [More]

The extent of the damage at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear facility is still unknown, but comparisons to Chernobyl were inevitable as soon as fuel rods became exposed and an explosion rocked the site .

It is frightening to watch what’s going on with Japan’s nuclear plant at Fukushima. It is also worrying to watch the fear racing around the world as a result of those events, fear that in some cases is far in excess of what’s going on, or even the worst case scenarios of what might happen

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GENEVA, March 12 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation(WHO) said on Saturday that the public health risk from Japan's [More]

* Radiation echoes Three Mile Island, but no meltdown yet * Stricken reactor dates from 1970s, newer models "safer" [More]

TOKYO, March 12 (Reuters) - The wind at a nuclear plant inJapan that is leaking radiation is blowing from the south, which [More]

* Report that nuclear building's outer structure blown off * Gov't says radiation level low, major leakage not expected [More]

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