A new study shows that the oceans were less cold in the early 20th century (1900--1930) than previously thought. During this period the ocean appears too cold due to the way some measurements were ...

A thorium-fueled reactor is the latest idea being revived after getting shelved in the mid-20th century. China has once again beat everyone else to a clean energy milestone—its new nuclear reactor is ...

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“Technostuff” built in the last 100 years outweighs all the living matter on Earth. By Dennis Overbye Call us Homo slobbus. It took roughly four billion years for the first living bit of protoplasm, ...

It’s a fact that anything and everything that was created by man for good purpose, from medicine to technology, has ...

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