Researchers say that when they came across their most recent discovery to prevent the flu a light bulb went off — a UV light bulb.
Nearly three years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, many consumers in the US remain concerned about radiation in fish from the Pacific Ocean. One Seattle fisherman finally got his fish tested, and found what many scientists have also found: there's nothing to worry about.
A post-Fukushima effort to crowdsource radiation data in Japan has since become the largest source of radiation data in the country. And it's now set to expand to other parts of the world. Catherine Winter reports from Tokyo.
Two years after the Fukushima tsunami and nuclear disaster, life is still far from normal for survivors. Anxiety over radiation and discrimination is now causing mental health problems and a slew of social problems from divorce to suicide.
More than 100,000 people living within 12 miles of the Fukushima plant were ordered out -- a journalist touring an abandoned town in the area describes what he found.
Safecast volunteers collect radiation data using their own Geiger counters.
Japan says the radiation from the Fukushima plant was double the initial estimates.
Noise permeates every aspect of modern life, especially city life. Is there anywhere a person can go for real silence?
The Food and Drug Administration wants to change the language of food labels for products that are treated with radiation. Consumer groups claim the proposal is an attempt to mask unsanitary industrial practices.