Daily Mail: At the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, scientists have been working since 1997 to build the world’s first sustainable fusion reactor, due to be completed by 2012. On 2 November, a test yielded a world-record-breaking 1.3 million megajoules, with a peak radiation temperature at the core of approximately 6 million °F. The project has been likened to “creating a miniature star on Earth.” “The results of all of these experiments are extremely encouraging,” said NIF director Ed Moses. “They give us great confidence that we will be able to achieve ignition conditions in deuteriumtritium fusion targets.”
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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