Rocks on a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic Ocean may offer fresh insights into previous worldwide climate change episodes
The animal kingdom contains all manner of visual organs
Cyber security threats to critical infrastructure are not just theoretical
Wildfires rage near a Los Alamos nuclear weapons productions center, where 20,000 barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste are stored. Travis Brecher reports.
Microsoft is taking its lucrative Office software to the clouds with Office 365, its biggest push into the mobile, Internet-accessible world of cloud computing as it tries stave-off competition from Google.
Nuclear officials confident over safety levels of flooded nuclear power plant.
New data illustrates how deeply AIDS has taken root the U.S. South, where many patients are poorer and more marginalized than ever before
The U.S. has 104 operating nuclear reactors. Most are more than 30 years old; 23 have the same containment design as Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plants that were breached by the March earthquake and tsunami; and a handful are close to intense earthquake zones. Another 22 new reactors have been proposed. Click on a state to find the exact location of the existing (or possibly new) reactor nearest you. —Mark Fischetti
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