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Turn a Hunch Into a Strategy

A low-cost, low-effort way to test your instincts--and prove a meaningful insight--before it's too late. We all have hunches: that a new market is about to explode, that there's a problem in finance, that consumer behavior is changing. Most people hold very strong opinions about their hunches

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How Safe Are U.S. Nuclear Reactors? Lessons from Fukushima

The meltdown started when water to cool the reactors fell to dangerously low levels four hours after a the fourth-largest recorded earthquake rattled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant .

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How to Overhaul the Way Buildings Use Energy

PHILADELPHIA -- When the Allies needed a weapon terrible enough to end World War II, scientists devised the atomic bomb. When the Soviet Union hurled Sputnik into space, American scientists rallied to build the world's top space program

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Lake Vostok is (Almost) Breached After 20 Million Years

Satellite composite showing location of Vostok within the Antarctic continent (NASA) Two and a half miles beneath the surface of Antarctica’s central Eastern ice sheet is a body of water 160 miles by 30 miles across known as Lake Vostok , after the Vostok research station above it, built by the former Soviet Union in 1957 and now operated by Russia.

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