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Tech6 hours ago The World's First Nuclear Waste Tomb Is Nearly Ready to Open

To seal spent radioactive fuel underground for 100,000 years.

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One Common Food Can Fuel Your Workouts And Aid Recovery. Here's The Science. Health 7 hours ago

Physicists Just Achieved 'Perfect Randomness' For The First Time Ever

Physicists Just Achieved 'Perfect Randomness' For The First Time Ever Physics 9 hours ago

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A Painful Side Effect of Statins Explained After Decades of Mystery Health 10 hours ago

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Women's Dementia Risk May Be Shaped by These Key Factors, Study Finds Health 15 hours ago

Thousands of Brain Scans Reveal A Worrying Consequence of Night Shifts

Thousands of Brain Scans Reveal A Worrying Consequence of Night Shifts Health19 hours ago

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Human Brain Cells Grown on a Chip Level Up to Play 'Doom' Tech21 hours ago

Scientists Find Cosmic 'Rosetta Stone' To Decode Baffling Signals From Deep Space

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A Sea Cucumber's Amputated Tissue Refuses To Die. Could It Live Forever?

A Sea Cucumber's Amputated Tissue Refuses To Die. Could It Live Forever? Nature1 day ago

US Homes Shake as Meteor Explodes With Force of 300 Tons of TNT

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Breakthrough Pill Nearly Doubles Survival Time For One of The Deadliest Cancers

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Humans Are Still Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau Health1 day ago

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A 'Supereruption' That Could Have Buried New Zealand Finally Makes Sense

A 'Supereruption' That Could Have Buried New Zealand Finally Makes Sense Nature2 days ago

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One Sign of Aging Could Be a Powerful Predictor of Death if You Don't Act Health2 days ago

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Giant Study Reveals The Secret to Heart Health Isn't Low-Carb or Low-Fat Health2 days ago

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