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Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010

Physics

Trump plans to revive nuclear waste plans axed by Obama in 2010

The new president approved $120 million to resume licensing Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste dump, but researchers at the energy department have other plans

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Mars

Space

Mars is so small because Jupiter shook up its formation

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Physics

Reality check: The hidden connections behind quantum weirdness

Features

Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy

Space

Oldest dust ever spotted in the universe seen in distant galaxy

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Binary star system

Space

Gravitational waves slow the spin of shape-shifting neutron star

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Peter Higgs with Princess Anne

Physics

Peter Higgs on knowledge, immortality and the future of physics

Features

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Space

Inside knowledge: Is information the only thing that exists?

Features

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Technology

Inside knowledge: Why we'll never know everything

Features

Sunset from the International Space Station

Earth

Geoengineering the sky is scary but we need to test it now

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Titan's dunes seem to face the wrong way

Space

Electrified sand could explain Titan’s odd backward-facing dunes

Saturn’s largest moon is similar to Earth in many ways – but its dunes face the wrong direction. It could be because static electricity has greater clout there

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Space

Stray supermassive black hole flung away by gravitational waves

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Space

Oddball star could be home to long-sought superheavy elements

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Technology

Atomic clocks make best measurement yet of relativity of time

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Technology

Special glasses give people superhuman colour vision

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