Bill Gates–backed nuclear start-up TerraPower just got cleared to start building its first power plant
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NASA unveils dazzling new images of the ‘Cat’s Eye Nebula’
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Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction
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See the world’s oldest fossilized ‘butthole’ imprint
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Kākāpō chicks surge after rare berry bloom
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Rare family has had many more sons than daughters for generations
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Claude AI: Why are there so many internet outages?
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