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Olympics Photo of the Day: One Step Closer to Gold

  • August 10, 2024
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Kadir Caliskan / United World Wrestling / Getty Kotaro Kiyooka of Japan celebrates winning against Tulga Tumur Ochir of Mongolia in the Olympic men’s freestyle 65-kg wrestling semifinal on August 10, 2024, in Paris. Kiyooka advances to the gold-medal match on August 11, against Iran’s Rahman Amouzadkhalili. Previously: August 9: Sha’Carri Richardson secures gold for […]

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The Modern Olympics Invented the Marathon

  • August 10, 2024
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The Paris Olympics’ picturesque marathon course will take runners past many of the city’s highlights—the Palace of Versailles, the Louvre’s glass pyramid, the Eiffel Tower. But it will miss, by miles, a plain one-block street in the 13th arrondissement named Rue Michel-Bréal. That’s a shame, given that Michel Bréal is the reason anyone ever ran […]

Tech companies want nuclear power. Some utilities are throwing up roadblocks

  • August 10, 2024
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A cooling tower at the Constellation Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station in Scriba, New York, US, on Tuesday, May 9, 2023.  Lauren Petracca | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tech companies are increasingly looking to directly connect data centers to nuclear plants as they race to secure clean energy to power artificial intelligence, sparking resistance from […]