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Spain is about to face the challenge of a “black start”

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Local conditions While the grids in Spain and Portugal are connected to each other, they have limited connections to elsewhere. The only sources of external...

After Harvard says no to feds, $2.2 billion of research funding put on hold

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The Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in research funds and threatened to...

Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates

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Shortly after its inauguration, the Trump administration has made no secret that it isn't especially interested in funding research. Before January's end, major science agencies...

First tokamak component installed in a commercial fusion plant

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Seeing stars? The plasma inside a tokamak is dynamic, meaning that it requires a lot of magnetic intervention to keep it stable, and fusion comes...

Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets

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Then, the researchers got data on all the speeding tickets issued in Florida and identified the ones belonging to Lyft drivers. The data showed one...

Researchers engineer bacteria to produce plastics

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Most of the polymers incorporated a fair amount of lactic acid, which can also form ester bonds. There's normally lots of lactic acid in the...

What the EPA’s “endangerment finding” is and why it’s being challenged

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There were a couple of notable aspects to that last case, West Virginia v. EPA, which hinged on the fact that Congress had never explicitly...

“Wooly mice” a test run for mammoth gene editing

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On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is calling wooly mice,...

Turning the Moon into a fuel depot will take a lot of power

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But, of course, you need to make the fuel there in the first place. The obvious choice for that is water, which can be split...

22 states sue to block new NIH funding policy—court puts it on hold

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Regardless of what else they might be doing, the indirect costs pay for various critical campus services, including at research hospitals. Suddenly having that amount...
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