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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

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.

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.

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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]

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.

Plans to build the nation's first tsunami-resistant building are unfolding in Cannon Beach, Ore., in a region that is almost identical, seismically, to the subduction zone that triggered the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last week.

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

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]

Wanna get out of the hospital alive? Well, the nursing staff has a lot to do with it. Now a study finds that a patient’s risk of dying goes up along with the number of work shifts that a hospital is understaffed in nurses

By Philip Ball A pianist plays a series of notes, and the woman echoes them on a computerized music system. [More]

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine--The disaster at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, is currently ranked as the worst nuclear accident in history.

As the condition of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan continues to deteriorate, nuclear safety experts, government regulators and health physicists are keeping close watch on the situation to determine the danger--both real and hypothetical--that the incident poses to people near the plant. [More]

Editor's note: Below is an excerpt from QUANTUM MAN: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (W. W

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