Researchers in the US have finally fulfilled an objective that was set decades ago: the achievement of “ignition” – getting more energy…
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Nuclear fusion holds huge promise as a source of clean, abundant energy that could power the world. Now, fusion researchers…
In August 1955, a group of scientists made a funding request for US$13,500 to host a summer workshop at Dartmouth…
Scientists made headlines last week for supposedly generating a wormhole. The research, reported in Nature, involves the use of a quantum…
For the first time, scientists in the US have confirmed a fusion energy experiment achieved net gain. This means releasing…
Our society faces the grand challenge of providing sustainable, secure and affordable means of generating energy, while trying to reduce…
Some stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or…
Titanium is a strong, resilient and relatively light metal. Its properties have also been well studied; scientists know a great…
The big idea My colleagues and I have developed a flexible, stretchable electronic device that runs machine-learning algorithms to continuously collect and…
Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped…