To Unlock Limitless Energy, Scientists Needed a Secret Ingredient—And They May Have Just Found It
The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.
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It’s 89 Seconds Until Doomsday and Her First Day on the Job
The iconic clock is set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, an organization founded by American physicists at the dawn of the nuclear age, months after the United States detonated atomic ...
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The fires of Hiroshima and Los Angeles: Apocalypse redux
The total area burned in the recent Los Angeles fires is comparable to that of the primary destruction zone of a strategic ...
Tom Still: Wisconsin scientist sees bright future for fusion as well as fission
Greg Piefer is a UW-Madison College of Engineering product who is bullish about fusion uses today while urging patience over ...
Atomic scientists adjust 'Doomsday Clock' closer than ever to midnight
Atomic scientists moved their "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nuclear threats amid its ...
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2025 'Doomsday Clock': This is how close we are to self-annihilation, scientists say
Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. Created less than two years after the United States dropped ...
The Cold War nuclear test that turned the sky crimson
The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.
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Moving from a Doomsday Clock to a Peace Clock
This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The ...
Doomsday Clock Warns Us of 'The Day After' | Opinion
Why not reduce nuclear arsenals from thousands into the hundreds, and divert savings toward fighting hunger and poverty?
Iran Is Developing Plans for Faster, Cruder Weapon, U.S. Concludes
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel prepares to meet with President Trump, the question of whether to strike ...