Pieces of homes, buoys, a fishing boat and other debris from Japan is washing up on Vancouver Island’s Long Beach.
Photograph by: Christopher Pouget, Postmedia News
After the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years, authorities in Canada said people living here were safe and faced no health risks from the fallout from Fukushima.
Video of the Quince robot during testing. One Quince became stranded during its deployment in a zone of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant deemed too hazardous for workers.
Japanese authorities are set to announce Friday that they have brought the Fukushima Daiichi complex’s devastated reactors to a state called cold shutdown, a milestone in stabilizing the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Protesters demonstrate against banking and finance in front the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt in October. (RALPH ORLOWSKI – REUTERS)
For Germans, the question isn’t whether to save the euro. It’s when to save the euro. For the rest of us, the question is whether the Germans will wait until it’s already too late.
This image courtesy of J. Rogers, University of Illinois shows an epidermal electronic system created by an international team of engineers and scientists. A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a US study published Thursday.
A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a US study published Thursday.
South Korean scientists said on Wednesday they have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, Yonhap news agency reported.
Undercover: Scientists have been growing human animal hybrids in secret for the last three years (Posed by models)
The revelation comes just a day after a committee of scientists warned of a nightmare ‘Planet of the Apes’ scenario in which work on human-animal creations goes too far.
Environmental activist group Greenpeace warned Thursday that marine life it tested more than 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant showed radiation above legal limits.
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Environmental activist group Greenpeace warned Thursday that marine life it tested more than 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant showed radiation above legal limits.
A sampling procedure conducted Tuesday on the spent-fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in a handout photo released by Tepco.
TOKYO—The Japanese government Friday published a report on the discharge of more than 10,000 metric tons of low-level radioactive water from the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, in a bid to allay concerns among neighboring countries that it was spreading contamination into the ocean.
Japan raised the severity rating of its nuclear crisis to the highest, matching the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, as increasing radiation prompts the government to widen the evacuation zone and aftershocks rocked the country.