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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Jeff Bezos wants a solar system with a trillion people, a thousand Einsteins and Mozarts, and 37,000 active serial killers

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A question for our times.

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The largest fusion reactor in the world fired up in Japan. Here's how the $600 million device compares to the US's revolutionary fusion machine.

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A large circular metal device, JT-60SA, surrounded by other metal machinery
JT-60SA is a tokamak in Japan, currently the largest fusion reactor in the world.

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A fisherman found a 152-year-old shipwreck with his kid, thought it was nothing special, and kept fishing

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Tim Wollak and his 5-year-old daughter Henley.

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What mice in VR goggles can tell us about our brains

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The view from inside a pair of VR goggles being worn by a mouse in a research lab shows multiple screens depicting an owl.
The view inside the VR goggles that the mice were wearing sometimes featured predators like owls.

Daniel Dombeck, Department of Neurobiology at Northwestern University

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