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  A new wave of smaller, cheaper nuclear reactors may have a short window to succeed, given the regulatory scrutiny and advances in energy storage technologies to make wind and solar power more reliable and economical, says Brendan Kochunas, assistant professor of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences.

  The Associated Press
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  Consumer sentiment is at its lowest level in more than two years, after plummeting 12% in March. “Consumers perceive a tremendous amount of uncertainty in the economy — policy uncertainty, market uncertainty, general economic uncertainty,” said Joanne Hsu, director of the Surveys of Consumers. “The fact that expectations worsened across the board suggests that consumers perceive more downside than upside risk for the foreseeable future.”

  The Detroit News
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  “Its fragile Afro-alpine ecosystems are crucial to biologists studying biodiversity. Its freshwater resources are southern Africa’s most important. Archaeologically, it is significant,” co-wrote Brian Stewart, associate professor of anthropology and curator of African archaeology at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, after Donald Trump described Lesotho as a country that “nobody has ever heard of.”

  Nature