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Experiments show fusion plasma can stay stable at higher densities by controlling reactor walls, challenging long-standing limits.

Photo of Richard Feynman, taken in 1984 in the woods of the Robert Treat Paine Estate in Waltham, MA, while he and the ...

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A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

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SpaDeX, a government-led space test on January 16, 2025 joined two Indian satellites in orbit and made India the fourth ...