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Feed SubscriptionMoney over Matter: Can Cash Incentives Keep People Healthy?
Think you would stick to a diet if someone paid you for it? Would you be more likely to exercise if you were fined each time you bailed on your scheduled workout
Read More »Some progress at Japan reactors, disaster toll rises
* Power cable reaches crippled Fukushima reactors * More than 21,000 dead or missing in northeast [More]
Read More »Biodiverity’s Ills Not All Down to Climate Change
By Quirin Schiermeier Climate change is affecting the world in many ways. [More]
Read More »Self-Constraint Leads Us To Prefer Aggression
How do you feel when you deny yourself something you want? Like skipping that snickers and reaching for the carrot
Read More »Chernobyl Opens For Tourism
Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis is a gruesome reminder of another nuclear accident, the worst in history: Chernobyl is approaching its 25th anniversary. And, believe it or not, the area is open for tourism
Read More »Attention, Ann Coulter: Report to aisle 5 for radiation clean-up
Well, I am impressed how conservative columnist Ann Coulter finds ways to make headlines. The darling of the radical right ventured into science journalism the other day, when during an interview with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, she said that radiation above the government cutoff is good for you.
Read More »Fate of Nuclear Plant in Japan Hangs in the Balance as Melting Continues
As night fell on Friday in Japan, workers and soldiers continued heroic efforts to douse the potential meltdown underway at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The covering darkness is not the only reason for confusion: vital systems monitors have lost power, making the status of critical elements--such as the integrity of the nuclear fuel rods in reactor No.
Read More »What You Need to Know about the Japan Nuclear Crisis
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Read More »Home-birth Study Investigated
By Erika Check Hayden The 25,000 US women who give birth at home each year received shocking news from the nation's obstetricians early this year. [More]
Read More »MESSENGER spacecraft successfully enters orbit around Mercury
On March 17, after a roundabout, nearly seven-year journey, NASA's MESSENGER probe became the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury , the closest planet to the sun.
Read More »Health Risk Fears Escalate as Japan Nuclear Plant’s Radioactive Release Remains Uncertain
Infinitesimal radioactive isotopes can be carried along on the breeze, landing unseen on the ground, clothes and skin. These tiny products of nuclear reactions are capable of causing large-scale damage in the body if they make it inside through inhalation, ingestion or even a cut. And many fear that such isotopes spewed from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are traveling inter-continentally--and in higher quantities than Japanese officials are reporting
Read More »Return of rare giraffes brings promise of peace among warring Kenyan peoples
It has been 70 years since Rothschild giraffes ( Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi ), aka Baringo giraffes, disappeared from the Lake Baringo area of Kenya that gave them one of their names. But now eight of these critically endangered animals have returned to the lake, and with them comes an unexpected bonus: a promise of peace. [More]
Read More »Japan battles nuclear crisis, power effort crucial
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Yoko Nishikawa TOKYO, March 19 (Reuters) - Exhausted engineers scrambled to fix a power cable to two reactors at Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear station on Saturday in a race to prevent deadly radiation from an accident now rated at least as bad as America's Three Mile Island in 1979. [More]
Read More »U.S. Nuclear Plants to Get New Safety Reviews in Wake of Fukushima Daiichi Crisis
President Obama responded to Japan's nuclear reactor crisis yesterday by asking the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to make a comprehensive safety review of U.S.
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