Humans just generated nuclear energy akin to a star
A recent nuclear fusion experiment puts physicists one step closer to achieving ‘ignition,’ a promising development for new clean energy.
A recent nuclear fusion experiment puts physicists one step closer to achieving ‘ignition,’ a promising development for new clean energy.
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The CDC is expanding who will be eligible.
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These turtles lived in the Cretaceous period and were wiped out with the dinosaurs.
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Three newly discovered fossil mammals hint at a bustling post-dinosaur world.
Some of today’s quantum physicists are tinkering with an esoteric phase of matter that seems to disobey some of our laws of physics.