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Editor's note: This article appears in print with the title "In Search of the Black Swan." Half a world away from Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, deep in the pine forests of Georgia, hundreds of workers are prepping the ground for an American nuclear renaissance they still believe is on the way. Bulldozers rumble across sunken plateaus of fresh, hard-packed backfill that covers miles of recently buried piping and storm drains.

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One year after a mysterious epidemic wiped out 12,000 critically endangered saiga antelopes ( Saiga tatarica ) in Kazakhstan, the ailment has struck again there, this time killing more than 400 animals. [More]

By Kevin Krolicki TOKYO, June 1 (Reuters) - Less than a week after touring the [More]

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine An analysis of nearly three-dozen highly cited papers has found that researchers often overstate the link between biomarkers and disease by citing papers that report the strongest association, even when subsequent analyses downplay the connection. [More]

We already know that cell phones carry all sorts of germs.

Bad blood pressure and cholesterol numbers are predictors for future health problems. You won’t definitely have a heart attack, for example, but your risk is higher. Now researchers have developed a similar-style early warning system for the public health of an entire region.

The radiation emitted by mobile phones has been classified as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" by a World Health Organization (WHO) scientific working group. [More]

A group of physicists working with data from a particle detector at the Tevatron collider announced last month that they had found something they could not explain. High-speed smash-ups between protons and their antimatter counterparts, observed by the Illinois site's CDF detector, appeared to yield a certain kind of package in unexpected abundance : a massive particle known as the W boson along with two jets of other particles. The CDF excess hinted at the existence of some unknown particle, an unidentified and possibly disruptive addition to the family of particles described by the long-reigning, exceptionally well-tested Standard Model of particle physics

By Zeeya Merali of Nature magazine It could turn out to be a milestone for quantum computing. [More]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York State sued the U.S. government on Tuesday to demand a ban on gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin until an environmental impact study has been conducted to protect New York City's water supply. The Delaware River Basin Commission has proposed rules that would allow up to 18,000 gas wells within the basin -- which sits in Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, and includes parts of New York City's watershed.

By Jo Marchant of Nature magazine A Roman ship found with a lead pipe piercing its hull has mystified archaeologists. [More]

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine St-Paul-lez-Durance, France The world's largest fusion experiment is finally beginning to take shape. [More]

An ambitious effort to digitize 300 years of Serbian military records has led to the indictment of more than a dozen war criminals and the discovery of unmarked mass graves.

Ice-road truckers may become an endangered species as climate change intensifies in the Arctic, concludes a new study that examines how rising temperatures will alter the transportation mix in the far north. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, say that by midcentury, warming will significantly limit the areas suitable for constructing temporary roads each winter. The season for using such roads, key transport routes for cargo, will also shorten.