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Japanese authorities informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Sunday that external power supply was being used to power the pumps that are injecting fresh water into reactors 1, 2 and 3, thus replacing temporary electrical pumps. It was also informed that some lighting has been reactivated in the turbine buildings of Units 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) said on Sunday the bodies of two workers at the damaged Fukushia nuclear plant have been found. The bodies of the two young workers, Kazuhiko Kokubo and Yoshiki Terashima, were found a week ago, but they had to be decontaminated before being handed over to the relatives.

The planet Saturn will reach opposition on Sunday, April 3, and be not only among the brightest planets in the sky but the only one visible for most of the night.

The Mutual UFO Network, one of the oldest organizations promoting research into UFOs, says the one that appeared over Jerusalem in

A study in Nature Climate Change from the Institute for Atmospheric Physics at the German Aerospace Centre may show that contrails have just as large an effect as carbon dioxide on climate.

China is facing an obesity crisis of magnanimous proportions, an issue best underscored by Lu Zhihao, a 4-year-old from Foshan in Guangdong province who weighs 132 lbs and is 3 feet 7 inches tall.

University of North Florida's student newspaper the Spinnaker has run into trouble after printing a picture of simulated oral sex on its front cover.

Indicating the distressing trend of size zero has gone global, a new research has found how stigmatization of fat and obesity has spread from western countries across more accepting cultures.

The recent nuclear disaster in Japan has put a spotlight on measuring radiation dosage and the health effects, and how to diagnose thousands of people at a time.

The Japanese nuclear safety agency said on Wednesday it is clueless why radiation in waters off Fukushima nuclear plant has gone more than 3,000 times above the legal limit.

The Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), which has been in uneasy spotlight since the quake-triggered nuclear crisis unfolded in Japan, has decided to scrap its four damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima power plant.

NASA has released the first ever close-up images of Mercury today, as the first spacecraft to do a detailed survey of the planet in 35 years powered up its cameras.

NASA will get its first ever close-up images of Mercury today, as the first spacecraft to do a detailed survey of the planet in 36 years powers up its cameras.

Trace amounts of radiation from the Japanese nuclear disaster have been detected in several states as far apart as California and Massachusetts, but state and federal health officials say there is no cause for alarm.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have created a tiny device that improves on existing forms of memory storage, opening the way to fast MP3 players, smartphones and cameras that use much less energy than current models.

NASA says there isn't enough time to test out 3D cameras for the next Mars Rover.

NASA's Stardust spacecraft performed one final rocket burn and said goodbye to the Comet Hunter.

Japan's Suzaku observatory has made some findings about the mass and chemical content of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster which can potentially lead to better understanding of the evolution of the universe.

SUZAKU observatory shows evidence of million-degree gas clouds in galaxy

An exoskeleton could end carpal tunnel syndrome as we know it.

A new study claims that religion may be on the way out in some parts of Europe, largely because it isn't as useful to adherents as it once was.

Astronomers may have found the coldest stars known, a set of brown brown dwarf stars.

Two Japanese nuclear workers have been hospitalized after getting exposed to high levels of radiation while working on the cooling system in one of the damaged reactors, according to reports.

Astronomers may have found the coldest star known, a brown dwarf 75 light years from Earth.

China is planning to build meltdown-proof nuclear plants conforming to the fourth generation technology in the wake of the Japanese nuclear crisis which highlighted the safety inadequacy of a reactor that depends on external sources of cooling.

A Dallas man received a full face transplant, the third time such a procedure has been performed in the U.S.

A Duke University economist says that buying those March Madness tickets on game day might actually be cheaper.

Electronic health records are often discussed as a solution for developed nations, but a study from the Regenstrief Institute and the schools of medicine at Indiana University and Kenya's Moi University explores the impact of electronic records on medical care in a developing country.

The Fukushima reactor buildings are square, not circular, and had to absorb the force of the tsunami wave straight on.