A high schooler's award-winning algorithm could help Elon Musk's company Neuralink and pave the way for neural implants that never need replacing

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Canadian high school student Anush Mutyala with the headset he used as part of his neural implant science fair project.

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The US wants to build a different kind of nuclear reactor from a decades-old concept that could power ships and other off-the-grid locations

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Molten salts are used as coolants in the Papirus installation at CEA Cadarache in Saint-Paul-les-Durance, France.

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NASA's Webb Space Telescope shows off its most detailed image of Uranus yet, revealing storms and a 21-year-long winter in exquisite detail

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A new image of Uranus taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The James Webb Space Telescope's new portrait of Uranus show the planet's rings and polar clouds like never before.

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Blue Origin is in for a reawakening

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Jeff Bezos gestures from inside a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule, similar to the kind he traveled to the edge of space in.

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2 nuclear reactors that can power 1 million US homes with clean, sustainable energy is $21 billion over budget and years behind schedule

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Units 3, left, and 4 and their cooling towers stand at Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant in Waynesboro, Georgia.

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Remote work stifles innovation, a massive new study finds

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Before the pandemic, most managers assumed that working from home was a productivity killer. Without the discipline of an office, they thought, employees would lounge around in their pajamas, binge Netflix, and get nothing done.

Take a look at the rivers of lava flowing out of a fissure caused by Iceland's volcano eruption

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Aerial footage of a volcano eruption in Iceland on Monday evening.
Aerial footage of a volcano eruption in Iceland on Monday evening.

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Llama poop sparked 57% more plant growth in a part of the Andes that was barren and ravaged by climate change

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Four llamas stand in what looks like the dessert .
Llama poop is very nutrient dense, and therefore can help fertilize barren ground.

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A rare manuscript about eclipses just sold for $255,000 at auction. Its author was the man who discovered the most famous comet.

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Engraving of astronomer Edmond Halley with curly shoulder-length hair and a dark jacket
Edmond Halley was an inventive astronomer who is best known for discovering the periodic return of the comet that's named for him.

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Scientists had a groundbreaking conversation with a humpback whale in her own language and it could help humans chat with aliens one day

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Humpback whales' language is as foreign to us as an alien race from another planet. Learning to converse with them could help shape our conversations with intelligent extraterrestrials one day.

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