New York Times: Within a week of taking office, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has announced that he will support the building of new nuclear reactors. Public opposition to nuclear power has been especially strong in Japan since the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in March 2011, which resulted in most of Japan’s nuclear reactors being shut down. Abe, however, appears to believe that nuclear power is necessary to promote economic growth and that Japan’s silent majority will back him up, writes Hiroko Tabuchi for the New York Times.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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