Salt on roads in New York State is coming from oil and gas wells, and it tends to be more toxic than ordinary salt.

Some nuclear power experts call on Japan to hand over the handling of the Fukushima nuclear plants to an international team.

The cleanup also needs to have plenty of funds. TEPCO is hiring the cheapest workers it can get.

It appears that substantial amounts of radioactive cesium are continuing to leak out of the damaged reactors.

The Boston Thug Department's automatic license plate recognizers collected millions of records about lawful vehicles, but they repeatedly ignored one that was stolen.

Which reminds us not to judge surveillance technology by the official purpose but rather by its side effects.

Advertising of prescription drugs in the US is leading to greater and often improper use of the drugs.

A European couple in Egypt was jailed for a month, accused of a crime they couldn't possibly have committed, apparently only to pretend to the Chinese embassy that a complaint had been dealt with.

If this is how the Egyptian state treats foreigners, I shudder at what it must do to Egyptians.