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The story of the 2011 catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant unfolds in a new book-length account from the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit advocacy group.

WARNING: This video may be disturbing to some viewers. When doctors discovered blood after removing a 48-year-old woman's hearing aid, they found a live fruit fly larva while examining her ear canal.

King Richard III, the infamous monarch who ruled England 530 years ago and became the deformed villain in Shakespeare's eponymous 16th-century play, is getting his portrait done with some help from modern technology. Sci...

The Shroud of Turin is not old enough to be the burial cloth of Jesus, according to a radiocarbon dating done in 1988, but a new study says neutron radiation from an ancient earthquake could have been responsible for an ...

Crocodiles are up there with sharks on humans list of most terrifying animal to encounter- and now new research has developed to fully confirm that these terrifying creatures can and do climb trees! The study was conduct...

Despite the Solar Max being a bit of a dud so far -- the long-anticipated event hasn't delivered a dramatic increase in solar activity -- SLOOH will broadcast a live stream discussing the recent activity as well as a liv...

Former "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw recently broke the news that he has multiple myeloma, a type of cancer affecting a particular kind of cell in the bone marrow. Brokaw, 74, got his start at NBC News in 1966 and...

A 900-year-old rune code that has puzzled experts has been cracked by a Norwegian runologist -- to discover the Viking version of playful text messages. Tumblr

(Phys.org) --At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in Long Island, New York, scientists study high-speed ion collisions that reveal what the universe may have looked like m...

The people at highest risk for suffering from food poisoning are seniors, pregnant women, young children, and those with chronic diseases.

The Research and Education Cooperative Occultation (RECON) catalogues outer solar system Kuiper Belt objects while training high school students with real astronomical science.

What would Jesus do? An evangelical Christian group has bought a humanoid robot in order to study the dilemmas its brethren pose for humanity     

The divide between geneticists and Native Americans in the US will only be bridged when everyone accepts that identity is about more than genetics     

Ignition - the process of releasing fusion energy equal to or greater than the amount of energy used to confine the fuel - has long been considered the "holy grail" of inertial confinement fusion science. A key step alon...

By quantifying the data from sea ice cores taken in the Arctic and Antarctic, scientists are developing powerful mathematic formulas for calculating ice melt.

Disinformation, with malice, may be libel when it attacks verifiable science.

A method for taking 3D movies of live sperm could help fertility clinics select the most viable cells for fertilization. Sperm motility is an important predictor of in vitro fertilization (IVF) success. The new technique...

As we discover more about love's neural basis, we are getting closer to a pill to diminish heartbreak     

A stairway to heaven? TERMITES are synonymous for most people with destruction. Given half a chance, they will chew up a house as soon as its owner's back is turned. But entomologists have a different point of view. They...

The human equivalent of the inching climber fish's trek up a waterfall would be like climbing Mount Everest... three times in a row.

A groundbreaking display at London's Natural History Museum reveals the humans that occupied Britain for the past million years – and tells their stories     

The findings, based on the only burial from the Clovis culture, reveal these prehistoric toolmakers are the direct ancestors of many contemporary Native Americans, and are closely related to all Native Americans.