The archive

Articles from www.sciencemag.org

Browse articles from www.sciencemag.org in the Akihabara archive.

Jan 2017

Fukushima residents exposed to far less radiation than thought

Citizen science usually isn’t this personal. In 2011, roughly 65,000 Japanese citizens living near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant started measuring their own radiation exposure in…

Jan 2017

Japanese military entices academics to break taboo

In 1950, Japan’s scientific community, chastened by the complicity of researchers in their nation’s disastrous military adventurism, took an extraordinary vow. “To preserve our integrity as scientist…