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Design work starts on European commercial fusion power station
The EuroFusion consortium hopes its DEMOnstration Power Plant will take fusion power from the lab to commercial electricity supply by…
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How Antarctic Krill Coordinate the Biggest Swarms in the World
Antarctic krill form the biggest biomass swarms on Earth. “You can even see them from space,” says Alicia Burns, a…
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Firms pledge to clean up construction with green net-zero concrete
A coalition of 17 companies has pledged to begin buying greener concrete this decade, and work towards buying only net-zero…
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DeepMind’s AI develops popular policy for distributing public money
DeepMind researchers have trained an AI system to find a popular policy for distributing public funds in an online game…
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U.K. set to abandon Europe’s top science funding program, go it alone
A few months ago, Teresa Thurston, a cellular microbiologist at Imperial College London, could not have imagined losing her €1.5…
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Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom
In a drab hearing room in Austin, Tex., members of the State Board of Education, seated at small desks arranged…
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Climate Change Is Turning More of Central Asia into Desert
As global temperatures rise, desert climates have spread north by up to 100 kilometres in parts of Central Asia since…
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A $100 genome? New DNA sequencers could be a ‘game changer’ for biology, medicine
For DNA sequencing, this “is the year of the big shake-up,” says Michael Snyder, a systems biologist at Stanford University.…
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When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight?
Have you ever been gripped by the suspicion that nothing is real? A student at Stevens Institute of Technology, where…
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Parts of the brain form a circuit that may fuel smoking addiction
Some smokers lose their cravings after experiencing damage to specific areas of the brain, suggesting these areas form a network…
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