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Why We Will Never Make A Nuclear Fusion Reactor As Good As The Sun
Right now, that's the problem with nuclear reactors on Earth: The amount of energy we need to produ…
Jessica Orwig
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The US is building its first new particle collider in decades on Long Island. Stephen Hawking called the technology a 'time machine.'
Scientists already know that protons are made up of even tinier particles called quarks, which are …
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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How Lockheed Martin's New Approach To Nuclear Fusion Could Power The World
What Lockheed has managed to do is develop a new way to constrain the plasma, using what is called …
Jessica Orwig
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Modi Allocates Portfolios To Ministers
Rajnath Singh — Home Ministry Sushma Swaraj — Ministry of External Affairs Ananth Kumar — Parliamen…
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How nuclear fusion works, and why it's a big deal for green energy that scientists made a 'breakthrough'
US Department of Energy leaders announced that researchers created a nuclear fusion reaction that p…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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An Invisible Particle Could Be The Building Block For Some Incredible New Technology
Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana, author of "Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Par…
Kelly Dickerson
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Why we don't have fusion power plants yet, and what it'll take to get clean, limitless energy to market
Trying to create a fusion reaction on Earth is tricky. Trying to control it and harness it in a pow…
Jenny McGrath
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This New Timelapse Of Norway's Aurora Borealis Is Absolutely Breathtaking
Green aurora are caused by electrons hitting oxygen atoms that are less than 150 miles from the Ear…
Harrison Jacobs
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See The World's First Images Of Actual Hydrogen Bonds
When a tiny hydrogen atom is in a molecule with a much bigger atom, like nitrogen or oxygen (for ex…
Kelly Dickerson,Jennifer Welsh
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Germany just fired up a monster machine that could revolutionize the way we use energy
By comparison, the more popular cousin to the stellarator, called a tokamak, is in wider use. Over …
Jessica Orwig
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is colored red by a powerful force beyond the solar system
NASA researchers recently performed an experiment to find out. The team proposed that copious amoun…
Rebecca Harrington
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SpaceX is about to launch a remarkable atomic clock for NASA that may change how we explore space
The atoms are ionized to strip away one or more outer electrons, which enables them to be trapped a…
Dave Mosher
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Earth's inner core is more like a ball of butter than a solid metal sphere, a new study suggests
Scientists have long thought intense pressures at the heart of our planet froze atoms solid. It tur…
Marianne Guenot
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Inside New York's Atom Smasher: Recreating The 7-Trillion-Degree Conditions Of The Early Universe
"What's important about this is that we can tell you a lot about what we created but we still don't…
Jessica Orwig
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Scientists Are Closer Than Ever To Solving A 100-Year-Old Mystery About Cosmic Rays
The origin of cosmic rays, and what could be accelerating the particles in them, has been a mystery…
Dina Spector
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An explosion 4 billion light years from Earth released more energy than the Sun can generate in its entire lifespan
Four billion light years away from Earth, there was an explosion so big that it generated more en…
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China made an artificial star that's 6 times hotter than the sun and it could be the future of energy
EAST is a fusion reactor based in Hefei, China. And it can now reach temperatures over six times ho…