A robot outfitted with remotely controlled pinchers poked at debris that’s suspected to contain molten nuclear fuel at the bottom of one of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors, World Nuclear News reports.
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In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes their study of fishery water quality data over two decades and what they learned from it.
Much more difficult is nailing down the i…

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Made of 502 silkscreens, the new work is the largest piece to ever enter the Art Gallery of NSW’s international collection.
In my head [it] is stupid, stupid thing.”He lets out a big laugh.
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However, in the years that followed, Through The Looking Glass began to find a small but ever-growing audience, and with time it came to be considered one of the rarest artefacts of early 1980s Japan…

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Cascading effects of pesticide useIt is now well known that neonicotinoids negatively affect pollinators.
As research has expanded, it has become clear that these globally used insecticides directly …

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Earlier this year, we wrote about machine learning & image processing in embedded systems using pasta type classification as an example.
Lixil Group, a Japanese company manufacturing housing equi…

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East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond.
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You may not know her name, but if you’ve played the recent Metal Gear Solid games, you know her voice.
If you’ve ridden the bullet train, you know it too.
In Japan, her versatile voice is heard by mo…

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Five men accused of gang raping a 14-year-old girl have been acquitted of sexual assault because the victim was in an “unconscious state”.
Sexual assault under Spanish law is the equivalent of rape a…

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Oki Sato explains how Nendo's chair for Fritz Hansen follows circular design principles, in this exclusive video filmed by Dezeen at the Japanese design studio's office in Milan.
The release of the c…

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