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Chris Talbot

Threat from Japanese nuclear emergency widens

Radiation from Fukushima has now been detected as far away as California as Japan’s nuclear safety agency raised its assessment of the crisis from 4 to 5 on the 7-point scale.

Chris Talbot, Patrick O’Connor

Japan nuclear emergency deepens

Neither the Japanese government nor the utility company TEPCO are giving trustworthy accounts of the dimensions of the crisis.

Chris Talbot

The implications of the Japanese catastrophe

The World Socialist Web Site expresses its deepest sympathy to the families of those who have died, to those who have been injured, and to those who have lost their homes and whose livelihoods have been swept away in this cataclysm.

Chris Talbot, Patrick Martin

Fossil discovery confirms “Lucy” walked upright

A new 3.2 million-year-old fossil discovery at Hadar, Ethiopia shows that Australopithecus afarensis, an ancestor of modern humans, had arched feet and was “committed” to walking upright.

Chris Talbot

The first spintronic transistor

For the first time now, researchers have developed a new type of transistor―running at normal temperatures―that utilises a feature of electrons known as spin, rather than charge.

Chris Talbot

Spending cuts in Britain worst since World War II

After detailed examination of the UK coalition budget measures, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said the country faces the “longest, deepest, sustained period of cuts to public services spending at least since World War II”.

Chris Talbot