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When scientists found the 'ghost' haunting CERN's most powerful acceleratorFor over two decades, scientists at CERN observed unexplained particle losses in their Super Proton Synchrotron. A new study has finally ma...
How a 14-year-old American built a nuclear fusion device in his parents’ garageA young American teenager, Taylor Wilson, achieved a remarkable feat by constructing a nuclear fusion reactor. He began this ambitious proj...
Fusion Reactors Can Hold a Star: So Why Do They Struggle at the Wall?Fusion energy promises clean power by mimicking stars. Scientists are focusing on the reactor wall's edge, where plasma meets solid materia...
Could We Accidentally Create Dark Matter? The Truth About Fusion FearsFusion ignition achieved at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has sparked unfounded fears of creating exotic particles like dark matte...
MIT professor Nuno Loureiro killed at Brookline home, an hour’s drive from Brown University shootingProminent MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro was fatally shot inside his Massachusetts home on Monday night. While authorities are...
ETtech Explainer: How Google’s Quantum breakthrough can make a difference in the real worldGoogle’s Willow quantum processor achieved the first verifiable quantum advantage, running the Quantum Echoes algorithm 13,000 times faster...
Startup claims it can make gold from mercury using fusion; science fiction turns realIn a surprising announcement, Marathon Fusion, an innovative startup from Silicon Valley, claims to have achieved the impossible: convertin...
American quantum computing startup says it's already making millions of light-powered chipsPsiQuantum burst out of "stealth mode" in 2021 with a blockbuster funding announcement. It followed up with two more last year.
Startups with laser beams: The companies trying to ignite fusion energyThe sun generates heat and light by jamming or fusing hydrogen atoms together into helium.
Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' review: A dense, event-filled story with a complex structureChristopher Nolan's new film "Oppenheimer" provides a complex, Cubistic portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the famed physicist, director of...
Mumbai-based scientist Ravindra Kumar is creating stars' temperatures on his tabletopRavindra Kumar assembled the equipment, at a cost of around Rs 15 cr, to study matter at extreme conditions.
Reaching for stars: India is betting big on mega, multi-country science projects"The big shift is that India is moving from the periphery to the core of such mega global science projects", says RA Mashelkar former direc...
How some of the most ambitious global science projects are opening new vistas for Indian scientistsThe detection of gravitational waves, an experiment involving diverse technologies, will provide the scientific community in India with a u...
13 scientific predictions for 2015Some incredible things happened in the science world in 2014, but one of the best things about science is that we learn more and make progr...