Guardian: The strongest winds blow offshore and the most cost-effective wind turbines are the biggest ones. For those reasons, engineering companies are vying to develop mammoth wind turbines that can operate far from the shore and generate of the order of 10 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 10 000 homes. The Guardian‘s John Vidal describes the race and a new British entrant, the Aerogenerator X.
An ultracold atomic gas can sync into a single quantum state. Researchers uncovered a speed limit for the process that has implications for quantum computing and the evolution of the early universe.
January 09, 2026 02:51 PM
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