The idea of sending robots into conditions that humans would not survive is a very ... has provided an excellent synopsis of the Robots of Fukushima in the video below the break.

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors".

Typically, bird flu viruses require several mutations to adapt and spread among humans, according to the scientists behind the research, led by a group at Scripps Research Institute, which has ...

The meltdown of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant ... not enough is known about the impacts of tritium on both environmental and human health to say that releasing the water into the ocean ...

Experts have warned that the possibility of mutations in the virus could enable person-to-person transmission. "While the H5N1 virus is currently thought to only transmit from animals to humans ...

The research, published yesterday (September 8) in Science, finds that the modern human and the archaic Neanderthal versions of the gene that codes for the protein transketolase-like 1 (TKTL1) differ ...

Scientists fear it's only a matter of time before one of these mutations makes it better at spreading among mammals - and potentially humans. Experts recently discovered H5N1 is already just one ...

In attempting to engineer a genetic mouse model for a human disorder, for example, it is important to know what kind of mutation causes the disease (for example, is the disease null, hypomorphic ...

Anti-nuclear activists lamented the death of musical composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who held the belief that “nuclear and human beings cannot coexist.” After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster ...