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environmental impact of nuclear power
Nuclear Weapons Courier, Serious Inquiries Only
File photo of NNSA and DTRA workers transporting three irradiators from Mexico to a U.S. military base on July 23,…
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Engineer Builds Obstacle Course to Protect His Nuts From Thieving Squirrels
One of the most popular YouTube videos of 2020 was from former NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Mark Rober who…
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The Most Terrifying Things TikTok Says Will Kill You
Screenshot: Gizmodo Do you have an itchy butt? It’s entirely possible that a 30-foot-long tapeworm is burrowing its head in…
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India Reports 4,529 Covid-19 Deaths in Single Day, a Grim New Record
Family members mourn after they received the body of a patient who died of covid-19 at a mortuary in New…
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Researchers Find ‘Forbidden’ Quasicrystal in Wake of Nuclear Bomb Test
The red trinitite that held a quasicrystal.Photo: Luca Bindi It’s reasonable to think of nuclear bombs in terms of their…
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Venmo Stops Payments for Palestinian Relief Funds
Photo: Igor Golovniov (Getty Images) We’re officially entering the second week in a row of fighting between Israel and Palestine,…
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Google Wants to Make the Next Pixel Camera More Inclusive
Google’s new algorithm is better at adjusting edits based on skin tone. Screenshot: Google Android is used on 3 billion…
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Amazon Extends Moratorium on Police Use of Its Facial Recognition Software
Photo: PHILIPPE LOPEZ / Contributor (Getty Images) Law enforcement officials are still banned from using Amazon’s facial recognition technology “until…
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Here’s Everything Announced at Google I/O 2021
Google I/O is back, baby, and that means a metric crap-ton of updates for the Google ecosystem. Although it was…
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Hackers Behind Colonial Attack Cleared $90 Million in Bitcoin
Photo: Dan Kitwood (Getty Images) New research into the ransomware thieves who attacked the Colonial Pipeline shows just how much…
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