“It’s a terrible problem. They’re like aliens.”
Fishing official Noriyuki Kani from Toyama prefecture on an invasion of giant jellyfish around Japan’s coast, some as big as 2 metres in diameter and weighing 200 kilograms (The Japan Times, Tokyo, 21 January)
“You would be constantly depressed and tired and not have time for your family.”
One reason British children gave when explaining why they did not want to be scientists (BBC online, 20 January)
“It will showcase the people and touching stories behind China’s atom and hydrogen bomb programmes.”
The Xinhua News Agency on a soon-to-open museum of nuclear technology…
