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The rainwater over Boston, Massachusetts has radiation, which could be side effect of the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was severely damaged during the tsunami and earthquake of the past March 11. Health officials informed that the radiation levels were too...

Several citizens, governments, institutions and businesses turned off their lights of houses, municipalities, universities, schools, workplaces and emblematic monuments for one hour, from 20.30 to 21.30, to collaborate with Earth Hour, an initiative promoted by the WWF...

Protesters in Syria, Yemen and Jordan went to the streets yesterday to demand social and political reforms and end corruption. In Syria, thousands of people protested in several cities Friday against the government and in support of the inhabitants of Deraa. According to reports...

Last Thursday a strong seism affected the northeast of Myanmar, Burma. The quake claimed 74 lives, however authorities believe that this number could grow in the upcoming days, since the search and rescue teams begin to scout the remote locations. The seism was felt in the...

Japanese police began encouraging people to evacuate a larger part of territory around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Friday since new signs emerged that parts of the crippled facility are so damaged and contaminated that it will be hard to bring the plant under control...

According to the writer of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D’Vera Cohn, increasing U.S. Hispanic population is due to the high birth rate, not immigration, as was speculated. The growing Latino population in the United States reached a new milestone to exceed 50...

According to reports from the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency in Japan (NISA), three workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant received high radiation doses. The workers were exposed to a radioactivity of 170 to 180 millisievert, the deputy director of NISA, Hidehiko...

An 7.0 degrees on the Richter scale earthquake occurred on the northeastern of Myanmar (Burma), the movement was also felt in Bangkok, where skyscrapers were moved for several seconds. The United States Geological Survey located the epicenter provisionally at a 229.4km depth,...

Tap water of Tokyo has doubled the standard limits for radiation considered safe for infants. Meanwhile the growing concern of the food safety continues to increase after the news of an unknown radiation leakage from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The...

The second woman in the world considered a genius is only 11 years old. Her name is Victoria Cowie and she lives in Wolverhampton, England.The British teenager achieved a score of 162 points in the Mensa IQ test, better than Albert Einstein and Bill Gates’ scores. Victoria excels...