Nuclear power helps lower the selling price of electricity, according to a recent report prepared for a nuclear advocacy organization, but it seems to fall short of renewables on the same score.

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Relativity predicts a lot of phenomena that seem weird, but there are a huge number of experimental tests confirming that it’s real. Here are three of the best.

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Disney demos its new Playmation video-game toy hybrid in stores as pre-orders open. This showcases the first wave of Playmation wearable tech, toys and app. For those keen to get ahead of the crowd, ordering early may be advisable.

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Pokémon fans may recall Magikarp as a comically weak fish-shaped pokémon. However, one cosplayer’s latest iteration of the pocket monster has turned Magikarp into quite a catch.
Sev, the moniker of a DC area cosplayer, is making Internet waves with his barely-there Magikarp costume, which he debuted at fan convention Colossalcon in June. A month later, the 28-year-old is still in the limelight.
“I never expected the simplest costume I ever made to get so much attention,” he said.
Sev told Forbes he created the costume as a joke based on the “Do You Even Splash” Magikarp meme, a Pokémon-centric version of “Do You Even Lift.” Fitness is a big part of Sev’s routine: he lifts weights, and recently took up gymnastics.
“The Magikarp cosplay took a week to make,” he said. “Unless you count the physique, which took seven years.”
By day, Sev is a software engineer. In the evenings, he devotes time and effort to developing costumes—the vast majority far more complicated than Magikarp. One costume, of a barbarian from the video game Diablo 3, took three months to construct.
“I got serious about cosplay after I learned about foam crafting. Once you know how to work with foam, you can make pretty much anything,” he said. “The Magikarp head is entirely made out of foam.”
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Sev spends an average of $100 on materials per each costume he creates, and shows them off while attending about five fan conventions each year. He said he enjoys spending time with friends and cosplay, as well as seeing other attendee’s reactions.
“I’ve gotten a lot of interesting comments,” he said. “In person, girls would randomly come up to me and ask, ‘Can I touch your muscles?’  Which was really weird, but it happened way more than you would expect.”

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Pokémon fans may recall Magikarp as a comically weak fish-shaped pokémon. However, one cosplayer’s latest iteration of the pocket monster has turned Magikarp into quite a catch.
Sev, the moniker of a DC area cosplayer, is making Internet waves with his barely-there Magikarp costume, which he debuted at fan convention Colossalcon in June. A month later, the 28-year-old is still in the limelight.
“I never expected the simplest costume I ever made to get so much attention,” he said.
Sev told Forbes he created the costume as a joke based on the “Do You Even Splash” Magikarp meme, a Pokémon-centric version of “Do You Even Lift.” Fitness is a big part of Sev’s routine: he lifts weights, and recently took up gymnastics.
“The Magikarp cosplay took a week to make,” he said. “Unless you count the physique, which took seven years.”

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What if musicians – tired of having their music used to grow subscriber numbers for streaming services – pulled their music from these services? The Reddit revolt may be a harbinger of things to come for the music business.

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