Radioactive materials spewed into the air by Japan's earthquake-crippled nuclear plant may contaminate food and water resources, with children and unborn babies most at risk of possibly developing cancer.
Winds are dispersing radioactive material from Japan's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant over the Pacific Ocean, away from Japan and other Asian countries, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.
The changes in Earth's rotation and figure axis caused by Japan's 9-magnitude earthquake should not have any impacts on people's daily lives, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Monday.
The Division stores more than 11,000 human brains from since the early 20th century for teaching and research. Brain Awareness Week, which takes places March 14 to 18, 2011, is the global campaign to increase public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research.
Health risks from Japan's quake-hit nuclear power reactors seem fairly low and winds are likely to carry any contamination out to the Pacific without threatening other nations, experts say.
Cigarette smoke is tied to a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, formerly known as adult-onset diabetes, for both smokers and the people around them, a study said.
The moon is about to witness its closest encounter with the Earth since 1992 on March 19 this year, according to a report on Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site of SPACE.com.
NASA has selected the members of the board that will investigate the cause of the launch failure for earth-observation satellite Glory, the U.S. space agency said in a statement released on Wednesday.
Space shuttle Discovery arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, making its final visit before being parked at a museum.
The space shuttle Discovery is an object of fervent desire for museums around the country, which would love to add it or one of its mates, the Endeavour and the Atlantis, to their collections.
A NASA scientist reported detecting tiny fossilized bacteria on three meteorites and maintains these microscopic life forms are not native to Earth.
More than half a million US teens have had an eating disorder but few have sought treatment for the problem, government research shows.
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