As workers continue to struggle to contain the nuclear radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, levels of radiation well outside of the evacuation zone are approaching record levels.
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Qatar to Use Artificial, Remote-Controlled Clouds for World Cup 2022
To help combat the oppressive heat of a Qatar summer, scientists have devised artificial clouds that can be controlled remotely.
Read More »Journey to Nowhere Near the Center of the Earth
Fifty years after their first attempt to drill through the Earth's crust to the mantle, say that they very well could do so again. For the first time.
Read More »Artifacts May Show That Man May Have Been Here Well Before the Clovis
Artifacts found in Texas may reveal that humans were in North America two-thousand years before the Clovis people came over from Asia.
Read More »The Florida Everglades are Garbage… No, Seriously.
The Florida Everglades, long thought to be just another side effect of Earth's ever-changing features, may now be a direct byproduct of ancient landfills.
Read More »Asus to Build PCs Inside Their Shipping Boxes
If you are planning to purchase a mini-ITX motherboard from Asus, you'll also receive a complimentary PC case... in the form of the shipping container.
Read More »NASA Scientist Claims to Have Discovered Alien Bacteria
A NASA scientist claims that the Orgueil meteorite, which landed in France back in 1864, could hold proof of intergalactic bacterial lifeforms.
Read More »Taste of Tech: Breakfast, Shot from Guns
An atemporal history of puffed cereals suggests that the links between food and industry stretch back to the beginnings of civilization. The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD.
Read More »Taste of Tech: Tangled Webs of Health, Purity, and Processed Food
Michelle Obama teams up with Walmart to fight obesity and bring down the cost of healthy food. But the problems of processed food emerged from yesterday's answers to questions of purity, safety, and health; will the future be any different? The latest in our series on the science and technology of food, co-produced with GOOD.
Read More »The Machines Are Farming Themselves, Too
Remember how we used to say that when the machines start reproducing, we'll know we're in trouble"? Well maybe it's time for a gut-check on that one. Video after the jump.
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