Nuclear Power Looks to Regain Its Footing 10 Years after Fukushima

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March 09, 2021

Energy Nuclear Power Looks to Regain Its Footing 10 Years after Fukushima Economics may play a stronger role than fear in steering nuclear power toward a slow decline By Jeremy Hsu

Physics Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room Experiment and the Limits of Understanding All of us, even physicists, often process information without really knowing what we're doing By John Horgan

Space Meet the Unsung Heroes behind Humanity's Improbable Journey to an Alien Ocean The author of a new book reveals the hidden human history of NASA's in-development Europa Clipper mission By Lee Billings

Biology This Sea Slug Can Chop Off Its Head and Grow an Entire New Body--Twice It is one of the "most extreme" examples of regeneration ever seen By Harry Baker,LiveScience

Policy & Ethics Big U.S. Banks May Curb Lending to Fossil Fuel Companies But critics say the commitments are hazy on details By Avery Ellfeldt,E&E News

Policy & Ethics All Medical Students Should Be Vaccinated A patchwork of policies from state to state has led to confusion and sometimes resentment By Erika Lynn-Green,Yoshiko Iwai

Evolution That Mouse in Your House--It's Smarter, Thanks to You Scientists studied three varieties of house mice and found that those who had lived alongside humans the longest were also the craftiest at solving food puzzles. Christopher Intagliata reports. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:08

Cognition Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate and Gesturer Laureate She shows us that gestures are not mere hand-waving. They can convey images that magnify speech or even add new ideas that are not found in the spoken word By Susan Goldin-Meadow

Biology Hummingbirds' Iridescent Feathers Are Still a Bit of a Mystery Scientists still don't know the full purpose of this changeable biological trait By Leslie Nemo

Evolution Neandertals Probably Perceived Speech Quite Well Could they speak, too? Did they proposition modern humans in an interspecies creole language? By Jan Osterkamp

FROM THE STORE IQ2O: Getting Smart About Water The current state of our water supply has been called a crisis in slow motion, facing a perfect storm of higher demands from a growing population, changing weather patterns due to climate change and safety threats caused by decaying infrastructure. In this eBook, we explore the ecological effects, the challenges surrounding water demand versus energy use, safety and sustainability issues and potential solutions from cloud seeding to urban planning that accounts for rising floodwaters.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Fukushima Residents Return Despite Radiation Eight years after the nuclear meltdown, wary citizens are moving back to contaminated homesteads—some not by choice By Jane Braxton Little | January 2019

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We may very well look back at this year, and the next several years, as the determining moment of whether nuclear really does play the role that we think it needs to for climate--or whether it falls by the wayside." Josh Freed, senior vice president of the climate and energy program at Third Way

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