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As officials in Japan deal with the accumulation of radioactive seawater near the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the wake of last month's earthquake and tsunami, the U.S. Department of Energy is investing in fundamental research it hopes can be used to build safer nuclear reactors and avoid reactor emergencies. [More]

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Buried under the south pole of Mars are the makings of one heck of a Halloween party. [More]

Health care reform became law, and within four years, 98 percent of the population was covered by insurance. Only 0.2 percent of all children remained uncovered. Racial and ethnic disparities in coverage largely disappeared.

By Daniel Cressey of Nature magazine The environmentally friendly version of polythene might not be so friendly after all.

On March 11, a powerful earthquake set off a tsunam i that swamped the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant , cutting off power and causing nuclear fuel rods to overheat and melt.

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Climate policymakers and scientists need to look beyond global warming emissions of carbon dioxide and take the loss of stratospheric ozone into account, researchers said on Thursday.

COCODRIE, La.--Eating at North America's southern rim, where the land fades into the water, demands a stomach for seafood particularly shrimp, crab and fish, such as sea bass.

When it comes to handedness, righties rule. And according to a new study, they have for a long time. Because even half a million years ago, nine out of ten European humans favored their right hands

By Ruona Agbroko JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's cabinet placed a moratorium on Thursday on oil and gas exploration licenses in the semi-arid Karoo region, where the controversial shale extraction technique of "fracking" might be deployed. [More]

Entrepreneur and adventure-seeker Sir Richard Branson wants to import endangered lemurs to one of his two private islands in the British Virgin Islands (B.V.I.), giving them a safe haven from the political unrest and habitat destruction on their native Madagasca r. But scientists and conservationists aren't exactly hopping with pleasure over the plan.

More than 1 million acres of Texas plains and forests has gone up in smoke this month as hundreds of fires blazed through the Lone Star State. Gusting winds, statewide drought and low humidity have created tinderbox conditions that state and federal firefighters are still struggling to contain

* Penalty charge for entering no-go zone * PM Kan harangued by homeless quake survivors [More]

The partial meltdown of nuclear fuel at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has created a crisis in Japan. Nature Video provides a brief summary of events at the plant, and what lies ahead for the damaged reactors

It was just a colour out of space--a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes. Science-fiction author H