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An elementary school building in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, is seen deserted in January. Municipalities near the crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima have been struggling to bring residents back. | KYODO
Jiji Feb 22, 2021
Fukushima – Municipalities near the crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture have been stepping up efforts to bring residents back, a decade after the March 2011 triple reactor meltdown.
In areas in 10 Fukushima municipalities that were once off-limits due to radiation from the nuclear disaster, the ratio of actual to registered residents is as low as 31.8%.
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Variations in Sunlight Have More to Do With Pollution Than Clouds, Says Study
21 FEBRUARY 2021
The amount of sunlight reaching Earth s surface has been fluctuating for decades now, and a new study supports the idea that human activity is to blame.
In the late 1980s, researchers first noticed a steady decline or dimming in Earth s brightness in various parts of the world, including a near 30 percent drop in sunlight since the 1950s over a particular region in the Soviet Union.
Just a few decades later, after the most harmful aerosols were banned and the Soviet Union dissolved, the trend suddenly switched from a global dimming effect to a brightening one.
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Black hole in Milky Way more massive than at first thought
An international team of renowned astrophysicists including researchers from FAU has gained new insights into Cygnus X1. The black hole and its companion star are further away from Earth and considerably more massive than previously thought. The project has also delivered new answers to the question of how black holes are formed. The findings have been published in the leading journal ‘Science’.
The first indication of something unusual was detected in 1964: two Geiger counters on board a suborbital rocket launched from New Mexico registered a strong x-ray source in our Milky Way. Eight years later, the US astronomer Tom Bolton discovered that this x-ray source was circling the star HDE 226868, a blue giant. Bolton concluded that Cygnus X-1, the name given to the invisible source, must be a black hole. Later observations proved that this assumption was in fact correct. ‘Cygnus X-1 is the first black hole ev