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With the plans for a Yucca Mountain waste repository scrapped, scientists suggest that clay-rich rocks could permanently house spent nuclear fuel
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The Ramps and Pathways program encourages students to think like engineers before they've reached double digits
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With so much interest in what's in our meals, food innovators are focusing on making the healthy palatable.
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk thinks bullet trains are too slow and expensive. He says he has a better idea: high-speed travel in tubes
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Now that passwords are neither secure nor easy, what will replace them? Fingerprint scans? Electronic tattoos? A pill?
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Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
A group in California is starting to engineer plants that could one day replace streetlights
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Examining the network of power plants, transmission wires, and pipelines gives new insights into the inner workings of the electrical grid
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The Pentland Firth, a seaway along Scotland's Northern coast, could generate enough electricity to meet half of the country's needs, new research finds
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An invention called the solarclave could help prevent millions of annual infections that result from improperly cleaned medical equipment
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Educating Americans for the 21st Century
How a new trend in education rethinks the role of computers in the classroom and lets each student learn at a different pace
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Just posting calorie counts isn't very effective. What may work, though, is framing overeating in terms everyone understands
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This NASA-funded project could head into orbit within just a few years
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A top training academy works double time to meet skyrocketing demand for canines who can sniff out danger
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Artist Guillermo Bert is weaving together technology and Native American tradition
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A look at Japan’s attempt to call itself “cool”
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New technology can identify an individual just from keystrokes
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Ion engines, solar sails, antimatter rockets, nuclear fusion--several current and future technologies could someday help us fuel an interstellar journey
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Research suggests that the more opportunities you have to connect with different people--and fresh ideas--the more creative and productive you tend to be
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A new biography looks to document how the scientist thought of so many inventions, some of which are housed at the American History Museum
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Educating Americans for the 21st Century
Partnerships that pair schools and working scientists are helping kids think about science—and science careers—in ways they never imagined
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