An assessment of Minnesota's laws on Narcan, an antidote to drug overdoses, by Temple University found that programs that distribute Narcan to ordinary people without a prescription "would be legally vulnerable." Scott Burris, of Temple’s Beasley School of Law, said programs that allow laypeople to distribute Narcan to addicts falls into a legal gray area.

Coral reefs off the coast of Panama collapsed for some 2,500 years, during a time of intense shifts in oceanic temperatures, found a new study. But when conditions returned to normal the corals came back. “We may not be able to correct what we’ve already done to the earth’s atmosphere and climate,” said Erik Cordes, a marine ecologist at Temple. “But if we take steps now to mitigate our effects on global climate in the coming years, corals might rebound.”

South Korea and Japan were supposed to sign a military intelligence pact today, but a political firestorm erupted in South Korea, where resentment of Japan’s colonization remains. The failure of South Korea and Japan to sign the intelligence agreement comes at the cost to Washington’s ambitions to create a united front against North Korea as well as China, said Jeff Kingston, a faculty member at Temple University, Japan Campus.

Japan's nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from "collusion,” an expert panel said Thursday. The panel urged strict checks on all reactors and said Japan's 21 oldest reactors may be at similar risk from a big quake. "This means that all of Japan's reactors are vulnerable and require retro-fitting, calling into question the hasty decision of the Noda cabinet to restart reactors," said Jeff Kingston, a faculty member at Temple University, Japan Campus.