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When The Sun Unleashed Its Recent Plasma Blast, Earth Got Lucky
What a predicted 2013 blast from the sun could mean for the U.S.
Japanese Authorities Consider Harvesting Backup Bone Marrow Before Sending Nuclear Plant Workers In
Japanese authorities are considering harvesting bone marrow from workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, hoping an infusion of...
Workers at Japanese Nuclear Plant Finally Get A Robot Assistant
Monirobo can withstand radiation that humans cannot handle
As Cooling Efforts Continue, Japanese Officials Consider Burying Fukushima Plant
Japanese officials conceded today they might have to entomb the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a sarcophagus of sand...
NASA’s Experience With Survival In Isolation Will Help Trapped Chilean Miners
When Chilean officials contacted NASA seeking advice from the space agency on how to keep 33 miners trapped in a...
Newly Discovered Underwater Oil Plume Paints a Complex Picture of Gulf Leak Aftermath
Scientists have yet to agree on the scope of the disaster
Giant Floating Crane Searching For Clues to Korean Maritime Disaster
A floating crane prepares to raise from the depths a South Korean navy combat corvette that mysteriously split in two...
A Noxious Mess Washes Up on Alabama’s Shore
Ocean waves affect an oil spill in two ways. They help carry the oil from its source to land—in this...
Scientists Say They Can Measure Rate of Oil Leak if BP Releases Clear Seafloor Video
Since BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded into one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in history, one big question has...
NASA Balloon Launch Failure Turns Research Platform into One Expensive Wrecking Ball
Ballooning isn’t exactly rocket science, apparently. A NASA balloon launch in the Australian outback turned calamitous today as a gondola...
