D'oh! Top Science Journal Retractions of 2011
Each year hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles are retracted. Most involve no blatant malfeasance; the authors themselves often detect errors and retract the paper. Some retractions, however, entail plagiarism, false authorship or cooked data Bad science papers can have lasting effects. Consider the 1998 paper in the journal The Lancet that linked autism to the MMR vaccine for measles, mu
Fukushima Nuclear Plant Released Far More Radiation Than Government Said
Fukushima Nuclear Plant Released Far More Radiation Than Government SaidGlobal radioactivity data challenge Japanese estimates for emissions and point to the role of spent fuel pools The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study1 that combines radioactivity data from across the globe to estima
What is the Sex of 17?
What is the Sex of 17?People think of many things, even numbers, as being either male or female Gender is so fundamental to the way we understand the world that people are prone to assign a sex to even inanimate objects. We all know someone, or perhaps we are that person, who consistently refers to their computer or car with a gender pronoun (“She’s been running great these past few weeks!”) New r
Observations: Fukushima Absorbed: How Plutonium Poisons the Body
Fukushima Absorbed: How Plutonium Poisons the Body By Katherine Harmon | Jun 26, 2011 01:00 PM | 1 Share Email Print Plutonium has a half-life of about 24,000 years. And scientists have known for decades that even in small doses, it is highly toxic, leading to radiation illness, cancer and often to death. After the March nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, peopl
Bering in Mind: Female Ejaculation: The Long Road To Non-Discovery
Female Ejaculation: The Long Road To Non-Discovery By Jesse Bering | Jun 17, 2011 04:01 PM Share Email Print I confess: this subject—the science of female ejaculation—is not an easy topic for me to write about. I could, in principle, feign complete gynaecological objectivity, affixing to my literary visage the stone-faced look of a caring urologist palpating your pudendum. But I suspect you know
Guest Blog: All About Stories: how to tell them, how they're changing, and what they have to do with science.
All About Stories: how to tell them, how they're changing, and what they have to do with science. By Lena Groeger and Perrin Ireland | Jun 6, 2011 07:54 AM Share Email Print Communicating science is all about telling stories. A few days ago at the World Science Festival, a stellar panel of science journalists and writers sat down to discuss the ways in which the web is shaping and changing how tho
Q+A-What's going on at Japan's damaged nuclear power plant?: Scientific American
Reuters | Environment Q+A-What's going on at Japan's damaged nuclear power plant? Japanese engineers are trying togain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 240km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, which was crippled by the hugeMarch 11 earthquake and tsunami. | May 25, 2011 TOKYO, May 25 (Reuters) - Japanese engineers are trying to gain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plan
Wildlife threatened by Fukushima radiation : Nature News
Leaked radiation likely to affect marine ecosystems more than terrestrial ones. By Quirin Schiermeier of Nature magazine Radiation released by the tsunami-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant could have long-lasting consequences for the natural environment in the vicinity of the damaged plant. Scientists estimate that in the first 30 days after the accident on 11 March, trees, birds and fo
Many U.S. Nuclear Plants Ill-Prepared to Handle Simultaneous Threats
Many U.S. Nuclear Plants Ill-Prepared to Handle Simultaneous Threats The U.S. government finds that many U.S. nuclear plants would fail to face multiple challenges at the same time as happened at Fukushima Daiichi On April 26, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff did a safety "walkdown" of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on southern California's coast, part of NRC inspections of all U.S. reac
Fukushima Nuclear Plant Not Built to Take Megaquake: Scientific American
Reuters | Energy & Sustainability Fukushima Nuclear Plant Not Built to Take Megaquake By Mari Saito and Kevin Krolicki TOKYO, May 16 (Reuters) - The magnitude 9 earthquake thatstruck a Japanese nuclear plant in Marchhit withalmost 30percentmore intensity thanithad been designed towithstand,raising the possibility that key systems werecompromised even before a massive tsunami hit. | May 16, 2011 By
Nuclear Agency Faces Reform Calls
By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine From the name, one might expect the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to have been a major force in the response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan. Instead, its performance was sluggish and sometimes confusing, drawing calls for the agency--an independent organization that advises the United Nations--to take a more proactive role in nuclear safet
How to Tear Down a Nuclear Power Plant [Slide Show]
Twenty-five years after the tragic runaway fission and fire at Chernobyl, tons of concrete shield workers and visitors from the dangerously radioactive puddle of melted fuel that lurks in the basement of the building housing reactor No. 4. Similarly, more than 30 years after the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, concrete shaved 2.5 centimeters deep guards a hollow reactor vess
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