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* Waves brush U.S., Mexico after thousands evacuated * Floods in parts of Latin America, little major damage [More]
Read More »The essential lesson from the Japan earthquake for the U.S.
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Read More »Q&A-Dangers posed by Japan’s quake-hit atom plant
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Read More »Health risk from Japan reactor seems quite low-WHO
GENEVA, March 12 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation(WHO) said on Saturday that the public health risk from Japan's [More]
Read More »Japan radiation leak evokes U.S. Three Mile Island
* Radiation echoes Three Mile Island, but no meltdown yet * Stricken reactor dates from 1970s, newer models "safer" [More]
Read More »Wind blows south-to-north at quake-hit Japan nuclear plant
TOKYO, March 12 (Reuters) - The wind at a nuclear plant inJapan that is leaking radiation is blowing from the south, which [More]
Read More »A mother 35 times: elderly albatross is still laying eggs
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Read More »The Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
On March 11, a powerful, 8.9-magnitude quake hit northeast Japan, triggering a tsunami with 10-meter-high waves that reached the U.S. West Coast.
Read More »The spread of the tsunami from Japan across the Pacific [Video]
The National Ocanic and Atmospheric Administration released this video showing the spread of the tsunami generated by a magnitude 8.9 quake off Sendai, Japan, on March 11. [More]
Read More »NOAA map predicts tsunami wave heights around the Pacific Rim
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Read More »Nature : Earthquake dispatches from the correspondent in Japan
Our partners at Nature have a correspondent in Japan.
Read More »‘Sixth sense’ for earthquake prediction? Give me a break!
This post is a slightly edited version of my December 29, 2004, post written in reaction to media reports about a "sixth sense" in animals, that supposedly allows them to avoid a tsunami by climbing to higher ground.
Read More »Let the sun shine in…all day long
Like many Americans, I have recently been diagnosed with a vitamin D deficiency. In addition to drinking milk, eating dark leafy greens, and taking 2000 IU’s of D a day, I’ve also been trying to get as much sunlight as possible. When I came across this article in the November 7, 1903 Scientific American , I realized that a possible reason for my deficiency is my home’s inability to rotate
Read More »Elephants Ask for a Helping Trunk
Elephants are smart, social animals. And now we know that they can organize themselves into teams to accomplish tasks. A research team that included renowned primatologist Franz de Waal taught 12 Thai elephants--who already work with human trainers called mahouts--to get a bowl of food by pulling a rope attached to an out-of-reach table
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