Scientists Just Took a Giant Step Toward Scaling Up Nuclear Fusion
A team of researchers at MIT think they may have lowered one of the major barriers to achieving…
Solar Flares Are 6.5 Times Hotter Than We Thought
A solar limb flare with a comparatable scale of Earth. Credit: Created by Alexander Russell (University of Andrews)…
America’s Most Powerful Laser Fires Its First 2-Petawatt Shot
A view through the titanium-sapphire crystal that helps to transfer power into ZEUS’s laser pulses. At two petawatts,…
Caltech Physicists Discover “Double Helix,” a New Equilibrium State of Cosmic Plasma
The double helix nebula. The spots are infrared-luminous stars, mostly red giants and red supergiants. Many other stars…
An AI System Found a New Kind of Physics that Scientists Had Never Seen Before
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