Eric Schmieman worked for 15 years on the modern engineering equivalent of the Great Pyramid — building a giant protective shield for a damaged reactor at Chernobyl that would protect the world from further fallout from the worst ever nuclear disaster. The steel shell, slid into place over Reactor No. 4 on railroad tracks in…
Every year when winter finally loosens its grip on northern Japan, Tomoko Kobayashi begins what has become an annual rite for her and a small band of collaborators. They head out with measuring devices to keep tabs on an invisible threat that still pollutes the mountains and forests around their homes: radioactivity. In her car,…
The risk of a geomagnetic storm to planes is minimal provided the aircraft has enough fuel to cope with a longer route, a Hong Kong aircrew organisation has said after a Cathay flight was diverted due to the space weather event. The Hong Kong Aircrew Officers Association, a Cathay Pacific Airways’ pilots’ union, shared the…
In September, Australian supermodel and entrepreneur Elle Macpherson faced backlash for claiming in her new memoir that she had “healed through breast cancer” using holistic methods rather than conventional medicine. In the book, Elle: Life, Lessons, and Learning to Trust Yourself, Macpherson, 60, revealed that she ignored the advice of 32 doctors to undergo chemotherapy,…