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First tokamak component installed in a commercial fusion plant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities

Grants paid by the federal government have two components. One covers the direct costs of performing the research, paying for salaries, equipment, and consumables like...

Qubit that makes most errors obvious now available to customers

We're nearing the end of the year, and there are typically a flood of announcements regarding quantum computers around now, in part because some companies...

IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware

By making small adjustments to the frequency that the qubits are operating at, it's possible to avoid these problems. This can be done when the...

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