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When telling the history of plutonium, tell the full story — including the atrocities | Opinion
Tri-City Herald via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBeing proud of the B Reactor, and its place in history, does not also equate to an endorsement of...
Dramatic collision with cosmic cloud may have caused Earth’s last ice age
Interesting Engineering· 3 days agoIncredibly, evidence of this cosmic encounter is buried under our feet. In their study, the team...
Trump's ex-national security advisor wants to restart US nuke testing. Nuclear experts warn that's...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThat's a bad idea, nuclear weapons experts say, as the US, Russia, and China could quickly find...
A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoFor a long period ending only about 12,000 years ago, our planet withstood a series of harsh ice...
Edward Stone, who guided NASA’s Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88
Washington Post· 3 days agoEdward C. Stone, who opened a window on the farthest reaches of the solar system while serving as the chief scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, supervising a pair of spindly, plutonium ...
Encounter Between Sun And "Something Outside The Solar System" May Have Dramatically Cooled Earth
IFLScience· 6 days agoAs the Moon orbits the Earth, the Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the center of the Milky...
FOTAS: With so many top pets at the Aiken County Animal Shelter, now is the time to adopt
The Post and Courier· 5 days agoWe have been seeing many signs around town recently, “German Shepherd Puppies for Sale,” “Labrador...
James Lileks: The cold truth about a stubborn ice maker
New Hampshire Union Leader· 6 days agoEverything's cheap and everything breaks: the common complaint.
The rare-earth Element: Terbium
Elko Daily Free Press· 3 days agoThe other row, just for the record is called the actinide series and contains the familiar radioactive elements such as uranium and plutonium. Terbium is...
Could Advanced Nuclear Reactors Fuel Terrorist Bombs?
IEEE Spectrum· 2 days agoVarious scenarios to getting to net zero carbon emissions from power generation by 2050 hinge on the...