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A Startup Is Burying a Nuclear Reactor 6,000 Feet Underground in Kansas
What if the safest place to put a nuclear reactor wasn’t behind reinforced concrete walls…
Articles by Dr. Lauren Mitchell
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Jumbo Recalls Frozen Green Beans After Customers Find Dead Mice Inside
Finding a dead mouse in a bag of frozen green beans is not something any…
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Tree Needles Caught Flashing UV Light During Storms And No One Can Explain It
During a single thunderstorm in Pembroke, North Carolina, researchers captured 859 ultraviolet flashes on one…
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NASA Spots a 50km Eye in the Sahara That Wind and Erosion Built
It looks like a giant eye staring back at you from space — a near-perfect…
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22 Blocks From the Lighthouse of Alexandria Just Emerged From the Sea
Twenty-two stone blocks — some weighing as much as 88 U.S. tons apiece — have…
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A Strange Green Coating on a Texas Sea Turtle Revealed a Deeper Crisis
A sea turtle washed ashore on Pirate’s Beach on Galveston Island, Texas, on March 7,…
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A 180-Million-Year-Old Rock in Morocco Has Scientists Rethinking Ancient Life
A rock face in Morocco’s Dadès Valley looks, at first glance, like crumpled leather —…
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Two Young Planets Collided 11,000 Light-Years Away — And We Watched It Happen
Eleven thousand light-years away, two young worlds slammed into each other — and for the…
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Tiny Crabs in Colombia’s Mangroves Are Turning Microplastics Into Something Worse
A crab barely longer than your thumb is doing something scientists did not fully expect:…
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How Judas Goats and Helicopters Saved the Galápagos Tortoises
More than 140,000 feral goats were removed from the Galápagos Islands between 1997 and 2006…