As four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant suffered catastrophic cooling failures and exploded in March 2011, the world watched in disbelief. For Japan, this was not just the greatest nuclear disaster since ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 15, 2016
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Norwegian researchers are working on mapping the geology of Jan Mayen Island, Norway's most northwesterly territory. In the process, they also found ruins from Atlantic City, an American base from the Second World War.
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2016
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A short animated film commissioned by two University of Kent historians challenges the concept that migration at current levels is a new phenomenon.
Archaeology
Feb 9, 2016
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It's hard to imagine life today without computers, but computer technology was not warmly welcomed in Germany following World War II.
Computer Sciences
Jan 27, 2016
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One of Mitsubishi's legendary Zero fighter planes took to the skies over Japan on Wednesday for the first time since World War II.
Other
Jan 27, 2016
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Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who saw parallels in the functioning of the human brain and computers, died Sunday at age 88.
Other
Jan 26, 2016
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An Austrian university has posthumously stripped Nobel Prize-winning scientist Konrad Lorenz of his honorary doctorate due to his fervent embrace of Nazism.
Other
Dec 17, 2015
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Japan is set to bid on joint development and production of an Australian submarine, Tokyo's first major military transfer since the World War II.
Business
Nov 27, 2015
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More than 70 years ago scientists working in secret created the atomic bomb that ended World War II and ushered the world into the nuclear age.
Other
Nov 10, 2015
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"Camera and film have become as essential in this war as guns and bullets." -National Geographic, 1944.
Social Sciences
Sep 25, 2015
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