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It's Confirmed! Laser Fusion Experiment Hit a Critical Milestone in ...
WEBFeb 6, 2024 · Scientists at the National Ignition Facility achieved a historic milestone in December 2022, producing more energy than they consumed in a laser-powered fusion reaction. The papers detailing the design, advancements, and results of the experiment have passed peer review and show the potential of fusion as a clean energy source.
Quantum Entanglement Found in Top Quarks - ScienceAlert
WEB1 day ago · The best-known examples of entanglement involve tiny chunks of light (photons), and low energies. At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the world's largest particle accelerator, an experiment called ATLAS has just found entanglement in pairs of top quarks: the heaviest particles known to science. The results are described in …
Entire Swarm of Black Holes Detected Moving Through The Milky …
WEB18 hours ago · Entire Swarm of Black Holes Detected Moving Through The Milky Way. Artist's impression of black holes in a cluster. (ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann) A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. The star cluster in question is called Palomar 5.
After a 20-Year Search, Scientists Have Finally Found Earth's True ...
WEBLearn about the innermost core of Earth, a dense ball of iron at the very center of our planet, and how scientists have found it using seismic waves. The web page does not answer the query directly, but it provides information about the size, structure, and history of the innermost core.
Probe Blazes New Record For The Fastest Thing Ever Made by …
WEBOct 9, 2023 · The probe reached 635,266 kilometers per hour as it orbited the Sun for the 17th time, setting a new record for the fastest human-made object. It also came within 7.26 million kilometers of the Sun's surface, closer than ever before.
SpaceX's Starlink Satellites Are Leaking More Radio Waves Than Ever
WEB14 hours ago · Satellite swarms orbiting the Earth are leaking more radiation into protected wavelength bands than ever. In fact, the second generation of Starlink satellites – known as the v2mini and v2mini Direct-to-Cell versions – are leaking up to 32 times more radiation than their predecessor. This is a problem – because some of the radiation they ...
Scientists Just Identified Hundreds of Genes That Could Cause …
WEB19 hours ago · Health 20 September 2024. By David Nield. (Richard Jones/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Scientists have discovered hundreds of genes that could potentially promote cancer, new research shows. Cancer is typically triggered by some kind of change to our genetic coding that interferes with a cell's ability to manage its growth.
Genetic Tracing Links SARS-CoV-2 With Animals at Wildlife Market
WEB19 hours ago · The common raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) was the most genetically abundant animal in the samples, they report, but genetic material from the masked palm civet (Paguma larvata) also turned up in a stall with RNA from SARS-CoV-2. Both species were linked with the original SARS outbreak, the researchers note, and common raccoon dogs have ...
Scientists More Hopeful Than Ever That Perseverance Has Already …
WEBJan 29, 2024 · The rover's radar has revealed underground layers of sediment that suggest a 4-billion-year-old lake in the Jezero crater. Scientists are hopeful that the rover has already collected signs of fossilized microbial life in the lake's sediments.