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The Launch of the Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor on the Planet Is Being Delayed by a Decade. This Is Why

Energy

Initially, the ITER project was scheduled to start plasma experiments in 2025.

Scientists Had Theories About the Origin of the Moon. Now, Samples Taken by a Chinese Satellite Have Cast Doubt on Them

Space

The samples brought back to Earth by the Chinese Chang’e-5 probe confirm the presence of pure carbon on the Moon.

The ‘4 Ms’: Google’s Plan for AI Companies to Consume 1,000 Times Less Power

Energy

AI is consuming a monstrous amount energy of during its training and when providing users with responses to their questions.

Something Unusual Is Happening in the Mesosphere With Night-Shining Clouds. SpaceX Is the Main Suspect

Space

During solar maximum years, polar mesospheric clouds shouldn’t be visible, but we can't stop seeing them.

NASA Detected an Asteroid the Size of One of the Giza Pyramids Just Two Weeks Before It Passed 'Close to' Earth

Space

If it had collided with Earth, the resulting explosion would’ve been 10 to 20 times more powerful than the majority of hydrogen bombs.

Scientists Are Investigating the Source of More Than 5,200 Craters Discovered off the Coast of California. It May Have to Do With Gravitational Forces

Nature and Environment

In 1998, scientists at MBARI discovered mysterious holes off the coast of California during a seafloor survey.

This 17-Year-Old Girl From China Is a Math Prodigy, Defeating Students From MIT, Cambridge, and Stanford

Research

This 17-year-old Chinese girl is a math prodigy. She's beaten students from MIT, Cambridge, and Stanford.

Japan Has the Key to the Next Evolution of Robots: Wrapping Them in Human Skin

Research

The next goal is to make them sweat and bleed.

It Consumes Five Times Less Energy and Doesn’t Require Gas: This Is the French Invention Aims to Replace Your Air Conditioner

Energy

Caeli Énergie's device is seriously coming for your air conditioning.

Physicists Don’t Know Exactly What Time Is. However, They Suspect That It’s an Illusion

Research

Physicists don’t know exactly what time is. However, they suspect that it’s an Illusion.

The Asteroid Bennu Has Just Revealed a Clue About the World It Came From. The Key Is in Its Phosphates

Space

OSIRIS-REx is one of the most ambitious space missions in recent years.

We’ve Been Purchasing the Most Common and Ordinary Fish for Our Aquariums for Years. It Turns Out That It’s Actually a New Species

Nature and Environment

An important lesson: There’s still a lot of work to be done to fully understand biodiversity in understudied regions.

‘It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It.’ This Is Emotional Intelligence Technique Steve Jobs Used When No One Was Talking About It

Others

The Apple co-founder naturally utilized verbal and non-verbal communication techniques that are now recognized as part of emotional intelligence.

While Working on Creating a Stronger Cement, Researchers Have Made a Breakthrough: Shells

Bill Gates Takes Notes by Hand in All His Meetings and in the Margins of the Books He Reads. The Reason Is Backed by Science

Others

Handwriting activates areas of the brain related to learning and memory that aren’t activated when typing on a keyboard.

The Launch of the Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor on the Planet Is Being Delayed by a Decade. This Is Why

Scientists Had Theories About the Origin of the Moon. Now, Samples Taken by a Chinese Satellite Have Cast Doubt on Them

The ‘4 Ms’: Google’s Plan for AI Companies to Consume 1,000 Times Less Power

Something Unusual Is Happening in the Mesosphere With Night-Shining Clouds. SpaceX Is the Main Suspect

NASA Detected an Asteroid the Size of One of the Giza Pyramids Just Two Weeks Before It Passed 'Close to' Earth

Scientists Are Investigating the Source of More Than 5,200 Craters Discovered off the Coast of California. It May Have to Do With Gravitational Forces

This 17-Year-Old Girl From China Is a Math Prodigy, Defeating Students From MIT, Cambridge, and Stanford

Japan Has the Key to the Next Evolution of Robots: Wrapping Them in Human Skin

It Consumes Five Times Less Energy and Doesn’t Require Gas: This Is the French Invention Aims to Replace Your Air Conditioner

Physicists Don’t Know Exactly What Time Is. However, They Suspect That It’s an Illusion

The Asteroid Bennu Has Just Revealed a Clue About the World It Came From. The Key Is in Its Phosphates

We’ve Been Purchasing the Most Common and Ordinary Fish for Our Aquariums for Years. It Turns Out That It’s Actually a New Species

‘It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It.’ This Is Emotional Intelligence Technique Steve Jobs Used When No One Was Talking About It

While Working on Creating a Stronger Cement, Researchers Have Made a Breakthrough: Shells

A New Study Aimed to Find Out Whether We Should Drink Water from a Bottle Sitting in the Sun. It’s Not Good News

Scientists Are Injecting Radioactive Material Into Rhino Horns on Live Animals to Prevent Us From Eating Them

Astronauts on the ISS Had to Take Shelter After a Huge Russian Satellite Broke Into 100 Pieces for Unknown Reasons

NASA's Perseverance Rover Hasn’t Just Collected Rocks on Mars: Its Tubes Contain Another Valuable Sample

SpaceX Is Building a Spacecraft to Destroy the International Space Station—at NASA’s Request

Bill Gates Takes Notes by Hand in All His Meetings and in the Margins of the Books He Reads. The Reason Is Backed by Science

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