Plans are underway to transfer plutonium from decommissioned nuclear weapons to private companies to use as fuel for reactors. But the highly radioactive element isn't efficient in current reactor designs and experts warn it poses a national security risk.
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the reclassification "strips these federal workers of protections meant to prevent political interference."
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we are a cultured species. literally.
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Wemby’s height gives him an advantage in blocking and rebounding, but how does the tallest player in the NBA keep hitting all those threes?
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Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S.
Wemby’s height gives him an advantage in blocking and rebounding, but how does the tallest player in the NBA keep hitting all those threes?
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The history of studying fertility in space is weird, from rats failing to get knocked up to confused human sperm. Now, China has launched fake human embryos to learn more.
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NASA ordered its astronauts to take refuge inside a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and to prepare for potential evacuation of the International Space Station. But the crew returned to normal ope...
China's artificial embryos are part of an experiment to learn more about how human pregnancies could develop under microgravity conditions
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Sooooo, Earth is plowing through radioactive cosmic dust that rains down to the surface.
But hey, this is me talking, so you know what to do: don't panic! In fact, this is a good thing because it can teach us about our galactic environment.
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Western Europe is essentially trapped in the weather equivalent of a Dutch oven, a situation that one scientist said has “the fingerprints of climate change all over it”
Western Europe is essentially trapped in the weather equivalent of a Dutch oven, a situation that one scientist said has “the fingerprints of climate change all over it”
