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Scientists Detected Hidden Molecular Damage in Skin Collagen That Appears Before Wrinkles Are Visible, and It Could Change How Aging Is Treated

A July 2026 ACS Nano study from Hiroshima University detected molecular collagen damage before wrinkles appear — an early warning sign that could reshape skin aging prevention.

Medical Daily

AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper

Exclusive: Foreign secretary warns of combined risks of AI, climate crisis, irregular migration and foreign interference

The Guardian - UK

Edge of Armageddon: why does one of the world’s top thinkers believe we’re nearing nuclear apocalypse?

In a chilling new book, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli says we’re back on the brink – and this time, leaders chronically lack the nous of Kennedy and Khrushchev. So why is he against rearming?

The Guardian - UK

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Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive

Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film

The Guardian - UK

Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai review – staggering images of the aftermath of shattering violence

This darkly atmospheric exhibition pairs the revolutionary Hiroshima images of revered photographer Kikuji with Ai’s glittering but deeply melancholy visions of cherry blossom

The Guardian - UK

Quote of the day by German chemist Otto Hahn: 'I felt profoundly ashamed..'-The 'father of nuclear chemistry's' regret after Hiroshima reveals the human cost of scientific discovery

Otto Hahn, a key figure in nuclear fission discovery, expressed deep shame and sorrow after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His work, driven by scientific curiosity, inadvertently led to the creation of atomic weapons. Hahn's reaction underscores the critical difference between scientific discovery and its application.

The Economic Times

How do you photograph history that people would rather forget, or grief that has no shape? Two Japanese photographers give very different answers

From postwar Hiroshima to pandemic-era Tōhoku, a landmark exhibition pairs two Japanese photographers who've spent careers turning trauma into art

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Meet Tsutomu Yamaguchi: Japan’s official survivour of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is known to be the sole individual recognised to have survived both atomic attacks in Japan during the Second World War period. His case has been documented in history books and stands out as an extraordinary case of survival associated with nuclear war. The atomic attacks carried out…

The Times of India

Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation campaign over nuclear disaster

On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test. Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human negligence, reactor 4 exploded amid an attempted shutdown during a routine procedure, setting off a chain of events that ultimately…

The Conversation

1000 times more powerful than Hiroshima: What really happened in Tunguska in 1908

A tremendous explosion rocked the Tunguska region in Siberia in the early morning hours of June 30, 1908. The Tunguska explosion is the largest cosmic explosion experienced by humanity and resulted in all of the trees in an area of approximately 2,150 square kilometres being flattened by a blast wave…

The Times of India

Cool new proggy sounds you need to hear from Plini, Chimpan A, William Gilmour & John McGuigan, Playgrounded and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Ace new prog from Oh Hiroshima, Telepathy, The Prominent Citizens and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

Louder

‘Something out of the ordinary’: why are Japan’s oysters dying en masse?

A death rate of up to 90%, attributed to warming seas, is threatening the trade in Hiroshima prefecture, which produces most of the country’s farmed oysters

The Guardian - UK

Who was Shigeaki Moki? Hiroshima survivor dies aged 88

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The Independent UK

Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori who was embraced by Obama dies at 88

His research eventually led to U.S. confirmation of the deaths of 12 captured American service members in the bombing

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Salon

How the Gaza war changed America

Historian Bruce Robbins argues Gaza has shifted the debate over how and when the label is used

LiveScience

Last year, the oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat — equivalent to 12 Hiroshima bombs exploding every second

In 2025, the ocean absorbed an extra 23 zettajoules of heat energy in 2025, breaking the ocean heat content record for the ninth consecutive year.

The Independent UK

Girl, 13, identified as victim of Hiroshima atomic bombing after 80 years

Hatsue Kajiyama becomes first victim of US nuclear attack to be successfully identified by DNA analysis

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James Cameron gives update on Ghosts of Hiroshima film

Avatar filmmaker James Cameron has given a concerning update on his Ghosts of Hiroshima movie.

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Micron plans $9.6 billion HBM fab in Japan as AI memory race accelerates

Micron is preparing a major expansion of its Hiroshima operations to build a dedicated high-bandwidth memory facility, according to a report by Nikkei Asia.

The Independent UK

The German prisoner of war who gave Japan one of its most beloved cakes

Baumkuchen survived an earthquake and two world wars to become a wildly popular sweet

The Conversation

‘You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks, on 19 October 1945, George Orwell published an essay in the London Tribune, entitled “You and the Atom Bomb”. In it, he surmised what if “the great nations make…

The Conversation

As Gaza starts to rebuild, what lessons can be learned from Nagasaki in 1945?

At first, there might not seem to be any immediate similarities between a devastated Nagasaki after the US atomic bombing in 1945 and Gaza today, aside from massive destruction.

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‘My destiny’: Engineer escaped the Hiroshima bomb with his life. 3 days later, fate wasn’t done with him yet

"I thought the mushroom cloud had followed me." It literally did.

The Conversation

The ‘third nuclear age’ is a politically motivated label that seeks to justify a renewed arms race

In August 1945 the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people, overwhelmingly civilians. Eighty years on from this slaughter – which the then US army commander and later president Dwight D. Eisenhower called “completely unnecessary” – is an apt…

Evening Standard

King and Queen lead two-minute silence to mark 80th anniversary of VJ Day

Charles and Camilla at ceremony with veterans to commemorate end of World War Two

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