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Pres. Obama visits HiroshimaPresident Barack Obama visited Hiroshima today and paid respect to the 140,000 lives killed by the atomic bomb dropped on the city in 1945. He became the first sitting US president to do so. He called for a world without nuclear weapons but did not apologize for the attack. CaptionUS President Barack Obama hugs Shigeaki Mori (front), a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombin

2015 Year in Pictures: AnimalsA selection of images of some of the best animal photos of 2015 from photographers all around the world. CaptionCats crowd the harbor on Aoshima Island in the Ehime prefecture in southern Japan, Feb. 25. An army of cats rules the remote island in southern Japan, curling up in abandoned houses or strutting about in a fishing village that is overrun with felines outnumb

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Explosions shock China’s Tianjin portOn the night of Aug. 12, a fire was reported at a chemical warehouse within a mile of thickly populated residential areas in the port city of Tianjin, China. With the firefight under way, a sudden, rapid succession of increasingly large explosions erupted into fireballs that registered on earthquake scales. As of Aug. 14, the death toll was 56, including 17 fir

70 years after the atomic bombsOn August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing about 140,000 out of the 350,000 who lived in the city. Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The 70th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear attack was marked this week and Reuters photographer Issei Kato sourced archive images of the cities in the aftermat

A POWERFUL NEW technique for editing genomes, CRISPR-Cas9, is the latest in a series of advances in biotechnology that have raised concerns about the ethics of biomedical research and inspired calls for moratoria and new regulations. Indeed, biotechnology has moral implications that are nothing short of stupendous. But they are not the ones that worry the worriers. Have you had a friend or relativ

In an episode that speaks volumes about cultural institutions, ethnic sensitivity, and the power of protest in the digital age, the Museum of Fine Arts is hastily pulling back on an event that protesters labeled a latter-day form of racist minstrelsy. MFA officials announced Tuesday they would recast “Kimono Wednesdays,” an attraction scheduled to run throughout July. It is extremely rare for the

“In science, the prevailing opinion is called dogma. And dogma is often right, and often wrong,” said Arnold Caplan, a biology professor at Case Western Reserve University and friend who has acted as a sounding board for some of Vacanti’s ideas. “He tests them out on me and if I think they’re totally stupid, I tell him, since I’m not known to be subtle,'’ Caplan said. “Most of the time, I’m encour

Amid protests, Egypt court delays constitution ruling CAIRO — A court postponed issuing a key ruling Tuesday on whether a Muslim Brotherhood-led panel tasked with writing Egypt’s new constitution is legal, after Islamists protested outside the courtroom and squabbled with rival lawyers inside in a tense session. The high emotions were a sign of the stakes in the case, which will effectively determ