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Here a group known as the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) built a deep geological repository to contain spent ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...

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Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide ...

A powerful solar storm could spark auroras as far south as northern California and Alabama on Wednesday, thanks to a ...

Blue Origin successfully launched—and partially landed—its New Glenn rocket on Thursday. The achievement marks a major step ...

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Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...