No end in sight for Japan nuclear crisis
Engineers are now suggesting it may take 30 years to make the Fukushima site safe.
Engineers are now suggesting it may take 30 years to make the Fukushima site safe.
The Fukushima nuclear plants are emitting ever-increasing amounts of radioactive isotopes.
Workers were once again evacuated from the Fukushima nuclear power plant as radiation rose to extraordinarily high levels on Sunday.
The events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are slipping off the front pages, but the situation in is still not under control.
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.
Neither the Japanese government nor the utility company TEPCO are giving trustworthy accounts of the dimensions of the crisis.
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.
Astronomical observation directly confirms the nebular hypothesis of Kant and Laplace.
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.
Rain forest and the Arctic ice cap are being affected by rising temperatures.
NASA has confirmed this month that its Kepler space observatory has now identified the smallest yet planet outside our solar system, exoplanet Kepler-10b.
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.
The new bacteria was discovered by a research team at Mono Lake, California.
Major advances have recently been made that have considerably advanced our understanding of the brain at the level of its cellular structure.
A giant structure around our Milky Way galaxy has been discovered by the NASA Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
The Nagoya summit on biodiversity failed to take any significant action on a critical environmental issue.
Benoit Mandelbrot coined the word fractal in 1975 to describe the revolutionary approach to geometrical mathematics that he pioneered.
Russian-born physicists Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim, now based at the University of Manchester, joined six other Nobel Prize winners in opposing the cap on immigrants into Britain from outside the European Union.
Robert Edwards has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in recognition of his pioneering work in the technique of in vitro fertilization (IVF).
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”.