An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: A multination project to build a fusion reactor cleared a milestone yesterday and is now six-and-a-half-years away from “First Plasma,” officials announced. Yesterday, dignitaries attended a components handover ceremony at the construction site of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in southern France. The ITER project is an experiment aimed at reaching the…
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Fusion could power spacecraft within 10 years
A new type of nuclear fusion propulsion system could see spacecraft make it to Saturn in a matter of months. Often seen as the Holy Grail of power gen… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/328561/fusion-could-power-spacecraft-within-10-years…
We go between the sun and Jupiter June 10
Opposition on June 10 marks the middle of the best time of year to see Jupiter. The planet shines at its brightest best in Earth’s sky. It’s also out all night long, rising at sunset and setting at sunrise. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/earth-passes-between-jupiter-and-sun…
Brown Dwarf Atmospheres As The Potentially Most Detectable And Abundant Sites For Life
RockDoctor writes: Yet another provocative paper emerges onto Arxiv from Harvard’s Lingam and Loeb. Today they estimate the volume of space occupied by habitable zones (regions where liquid water is stable) in brown dwarf not-quite stars. They find that it could be orders of magnitude greater than the volume in the atmospheres of Earth-size planets. Brown dwarfs are masses of gas…
Google Revives Controversial Cold-Fusion Experiments
According to a peer-reviewed paper revealed this week, Google is continuing its experiments into the controversial science of cold fusion — the theory that nuclear fusion, the process that powers the Sun, can produce energy in a table-top experiment at room temperature. While Google’s recent project found no evidence that cold fusion is possible, it did make some advances in measurement…
Apple Updates iPod Touch With A10 Fusion Chip (and Nothing Else)
Apple today released a new iPod Touch with A10 fusion chip that supports group FaceTime chats and improved augmented reality capabilities. From a report: The rest of the device is unchanged, compared to the previous generation iPod Touch, but it’s still nice to see it receive updates. The new, more powerful chip will let people play the latest games and use…
New collider concept would take quantum theories to an extreme
A new idea for smashing beams of elementary particles into one another could reveal how light and matter interact under extreme conditions that may exist on the surfaces of exotic astrophysical objects, in powerful cosmic light bursts and star explosions, in next-generation particle colliders and in hot, dense fusion plasma. …
Stellar waltz with dramatic ending
Astronomers at the University of Bonn and their colleagues from Moscow have identified an unusual celestial object. It is most likely the product of the fusion of two stars that died a long time ago. After billions of years circling around each other these so-called white dwarfs merged and rose from the dead. In the near future, their lives could finally…
Herbie Hancock’s Joyous Soundtrack for the Original Fat Albert TV Special (1969)
Millions of kids grew up with the groovy yet educational cartoon comedy of Fat Albert, and millions of adults may find it difficult or impossible now to watch the show without thinking of the crimes of its creator. Such is life in the 21st century, but so it was too at the end of the […]
Herbie Hancock’s Joyous Soundtrack for the…