By Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to halve radiation over two years in places contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear crisis, removing soil, plants and trees as well as cleaning roofs of buildings in an area spanning thousands of square kilometers. [More]
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By Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to halve radiation over two years in places contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear crisis, removing soil, plants and trees as well as cleaning roofs of buildings in an area spanning thousands of square kilometers. [More]
Read More »Can Hurricanes Be Controlled?
Everyone likes to talk about the weather, and maybe someone could do something about it someday. [More]
Read More »East Coast in Irene’s Path, Scrambles to Prepare
By Neil Hartnell NASSAU (Reuters) - The northeast seaboard, including Washington and financial center New York, rushed to prepare on Thursday for a possible mauling from Hurricane Irene that will hit the U.S. coast this weekend. [More]
Read More »Polar Bear Death at BP Oil Field under Investigation
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Federal authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a polar bear at an Alaska oil field operated by BP, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the oil company said on Thursday
Read More »New Text Search Uncovers Disease Ties and Safety Data Hiding in Electronic Health Records
It doesn’t take much imagination to think of ways in which all of the data being recorded into electronic health records (EHRs) could be used study diseases and map trends. [More]
Read More »Childhood Vaccines Cleared of Autism, Diabetes Link in New Report
From Nature magazine Vaccines are largely safe, and do not cause autism or diabetes, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) said in a report issued today . This conclusion followed a review of more than 1,000 published research studies. [More]
Read More »The Highlights (and Lowlights) of Apple’s Steve Jobs Era
Apple has been on a decade-long roll starting with the its game-changing MP3 music player--the iPod-- in November 2001 right through its monumental, if brief, climb earlier this month to become the most valuable U.S. [More]
Read More »How to Prepare for a Hurricane in the U.S. Northeast
It’s not that the central and northern portions of the east coast of North America never see hurricanes. [More]
Read More »Diamond World Discovered By Astronomers
Say you need a diamond. You could go down to the jeweler, or you could put some carbon deep underground and let it sit for a couple billion years
Read More »Cloud Formation May Be Linked to Cosmic Rays
From Nature magazine It sounds like a conspiracy theory: 'cosmic rays' from deep space might be creating clouds in Earth's atmosphere and changing the climate. Yet an experiment at CERN, Europe's high-energy physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, is finding tentative evidence for just that
Read More »Will Germany Become First Nation with a Hydrogen Economy?
Germany will become the first country completely accessible to fuel cell vehicles in 2015, when carmaker Daimler and the Linde technology group will build 20 new hydrogen filling stations. The result will quadruple the number of public stations available and make it possible for a fuel cell vehicle to reach any location in the country
Read More »Alone in the blogiverse: where are all the space-art bloggers?
Where are all the space-art bloggers?
Read More »Eyewitness Testimony Loses Legal Ground in State Supreme Court
As science has long demonstrated, eyewitness accounts are frequently riddled with errors.
Read More »Case study: why economics and addiction do not mix
Let me start by saying that I'm admittedly an economics fan. [More]
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