One of the new space startups with the loftiest near-term goals has raised $130 million in a Series B round that demonstrates investor confidence in
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Here’s What Happens to Nuclear Waste
Nuclear waste comes in three different forms and all with their own method of storage.
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Neanderthals used stone tool tech once considered exclusive to Homo sapiens
Enlarge (credit: Blinkhorn et al. 2021) The entangled history of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the Levant (the area around the eastern end of the
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Texas’ power grid crumples under the cold
Enlarge / Wind turbines can apparently operate in Antarctica, so it’s not clear what Texas’ problem is. (credit: Tien Lai, NSF) Monday morning, as a
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Astronomers: A comet fragment, not an asteroid, killed off the dinosaurs
Harvard astronomers have a new theory about the origin of the comet that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ago,
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Ebola outbreak erupts in Guinea as cases tick up in the DRC
Enlarge / Health care workers wearing personal protective equipment stand in a tent with patient beds at an Ebola Treatment Center in Coyah, Guinea, on
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