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The World's First Nuclear Waste Tomb Is Nearly Ready to Open

2 June 2026 at 03:32

A worker in high-visibility clothing walks through a rough underground tunnel lined with exposed rock, cables, pipes, and strip lighting. To seal spent radioactive fuel underground for 100,000 years.

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Human Brain Cells Grown on a Chip Level Up to Play 'Doom'

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By: Janelle Meager &amp · Sophia Poole, AFP

1 June 2026 at 13:00

A gloved hand points to a microscope image of cortical and hippocampal cells growing across a cell culture plate with electrode-like markings. “We are just scratching the surface of what these neural cultures can achieve.”

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