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March 4, 1962: Nuclear Age Comes to Antarctica

1962: The United States fires up the first — and only — nuclear reactor in Antarctica.

While the idea of placing a nuclear plant in such an ecologically sensitive location may seem like madness today, in the pre-Chernobyl, pre–Three Mile Island world of 1962, nuclear power was seen as a cost-effective, efficient and relatively safe way of providing power to permanent Antarctic research stations.

Supplying those stations posed a real logistical problem. By the ’60s some stations were manned on a year-round basis and the burden of shipping millions of gallons of diesel fuel to the south was both a...

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Jargon Watch: Lightfoils, Gelivable, Particle X

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February 28, 2011 |
12:00 pm |
Wired March 2011

Illustration: Ulises Farinas

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Geneva Motor Show: Beauty, Brawn and the Bizarre

From the sublime to the bizarre, no other auto show thrills like Geneva. Under no other roof but that of the Geneva Palexpo could you find an electric Rolls Royce, an Indian microcar and an outlandish French concept. And that's not even mentioning the most exotic supercars, built in countries we didn't even know had automobile industries.

With the knowledge that variety, and horsepower, is the spice of life, we bring you the concepts and cars that caught our eye at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show.

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Any news from BMW is big news, especially a concept that showcases a new design...

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