Trump cuts threaten a measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices
The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump ...
A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years
Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...
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How Researchers Found a Greener Way to Make Fuel for Nuclear Fusion—By Accident
Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion ...
NASA finds largest organic molecules on Mars, hinting at ancient life
An international team, led by scientist Caroline Freissinet from CNRS, studied the samples using special lab tests. The rover ...
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Scientists develop game-changing device that extracts energy from nuclear waste: 'Trying to turn it into treasure'
Buckeye scientists have a scintillating idea for recycling nuclear waste to generate even more energy from the abundant, air ...
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Stellar nursery sparkles at the edge of our galaxy in gorgeous Hubble Telescope image
The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young central star cluster called Dolidze 25, located outside of the image frame.
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Nuclear fusion and fission articles from across Nature Portfolio
Small modular reactors are compact nuclear reactors that can be combined ... is the main driver to deteriorate the performance of fusion power plants. This work presents an unprecedented ...
Researchers in Texas Figure Out a Non-Toxic Method of Making Fuel for Nuclear Fusion
Enriched Lithium is a critical ingredient in fusion reactors. Making it is a toxic nightmare, but scientists may have found a ...
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Fuel breakthrough paves way for cutting-edge nuclear reactor
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a ...
James Webb Space Telescope sees four giant alien planets circling nearby star (images)
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has directly imaged four planets orbiting the host star HR 8799 about 130 light-years ...
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Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...