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Twenty-five years after the tragic runaway fission and fire at Chernobyl , tons of concrete shield workers and visitors from the dangerously radioactive puddle of melted fuel that lurks in the basement of the building housing reactor No. 4. Similarly, more than 30 years after the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, concrete shaved 2.5 centimeters deep guards a hollow reactor vessel, its partially melted down fuel rods having been taken out over the course of a decade and shipped to Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for study

It can be tough to keep up with dietary trends. Like eating eggs: good for you or bad? But one thing is certain.

By Kevin Gray MIAMI (Reuters) - A rare and potent combination of cool air clashing with warm, humid weather and extreme winds at varying altitudes ignited the deadly tornadoes that ravaged the U.S. South this week, meteorologists said on Thursday. [More]

Space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to blast off from NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A at 3:47 P.M.

A controversial (read: insane) alternative multiple sclerosis treatment has gained a popular following in Canada via social media, wrongly influencing research priorities.

Sometimes conservation plans work so well that once-endangered species no longer need protection. That's the case in Central America, where the Morelet's crocodile ( Crocodylus moreletii ) has recovered enough that many of the protections put in place decades ago to help it are now on the verge of being lifted. Once heavily hunted for their skin, which was heavily valued as a source of high-quality leather, the Morelet's crocodile began its slow climb toward survival back in 1970, when Mexico (where most of the animals live) banned hunting of all crocodiles and caimans.

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It's a somber morning here at AccuWeather.com HQ while we report the news that over 230 people have been killed by yesterday's tornado outbreak, mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. This is the deadliest outbreak since I was born in 1974, and it's a real shame that it can happen in this time of modern technology. Here are maps of the tornado and funnel cloud reports yesterday:

New add-ons come to the do-stuff-while-chatting app launched by a young Israeli entrepreneur. Innobell , an app from an Israeli tech wunderkind who had to pitch an Army general to score time to work on it , launches four new add-ons today

By Verna Gates TUSCALOOSA, Alabama (Reuters) - Tornadoes and violent storms ripped through seven southern states, killing more than 220 people as they flattened neighborhoods, flipped cars and toppled trees and power lines, officials said on Thursday. [More]

Los Angeles-based startup Styku is chasing the Holy Grail of the online apparel business: making a virtual fitting room that actually works. How they're overcoming the various challenges of apparel software, including the most vexing problem of all--outfitting virtual breasts

Most of us start out with the best of intentions. Then we walk right past the fruit bowl in search of the devil’s food cake.

There seems to be an explosion of concern over animal welfare these days. With growing awareness to factory farming conditions, Americans are at last faced with the recent histories of their burgers, their nuggets, their pork chops

As a filmmaker--albeit for the very small screen rather than the very large one--it was my supreme pleasure to interview legendary director Werner Herzog ( Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn ) about his latest film Cave of Forgotten Dreams . Herzog's first foray into 3-D, the movie takes viewers on a journey through the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave in the South of France, which contains perfectly preserved charcoal drawings, many of which date to 30,000 years ago. [More]

Charles Limb, a hearing and ear surgeon at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, studies jazz as a means of understanding what goes on "under the hood" when a musician is improvising.