Climate change is killing off a vital ocean current system and it could spark permanent droughts and extreme winters, scientists say

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Monsoon patterns could be just one of many weather patterns disrupted by the collapse of this vital current system.

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NASA picks Lockheed Martin to build the nuclear rocket that’ll take us to Mars

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NASA and DARPA have chosen aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin to develop a spacecraft with a nuclear thermal rocket engine.

The psychological reasons why you fall in love with your colleagues

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About 60% of adults have had a romance in the workplace.

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Chien-Shiung Wu, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, spent her career fighting for gender equality in science

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Chien-Shiung Wu in a laboratory at Columbia University in 1958.

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'Oppenheimer' leaves out the most terrifying, deadly risk of nuclear weapons because nobody knew about it until the 1980s

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J. Robert Oppenheimer on a visit to New York on November 17, 1945.

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What it was like to live at the Los Alamos lab site during the Manhattan Project

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The Los Alamos Ranch School buildings in 1942, which became part of the Los Alamos Project Y site.

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This Mexican entrepreneur builds houses out of bricks made from invasive seaweed. Then he gives them away.

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Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America every year. Exposure can lead to breathing problems, and it costs millions to clean it up.

A secret bomb and ruined film: Why the US government only told Kodak it was going to test nuclear bombs

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A damaged roll of 35 millimeter film.

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'Oppenheimer' leaves out New Mexicans exposed to radiation from the Manhattan Project, despite local efforts to contact filmmakers

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The mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, New Mexico.

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Astrophysicist who claimed to find alien tech may have done the science wrong

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Last month, theoretical physicist Avi Loeb made headlines with the sensational claim that tiny spherules recovered from the bottom of the ocean were probably of alien origin. “It’s most likely a technological gadget with artificial intelligence,” he said to The New York Times, which published a story today about the Harvard professor’s contentious claims.

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