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'Tungsten wall' leads to nuclear fusion breakthrough

A tokamak in France set a new record in fusion plasma by encasing its reaction in tungsten, a heat-resistant metal that allows physicists to sustain hot plasmas for longer, and at higher energies and densities than carbon tokamaks. Read more...

Let's talk about whether women really feel colder than men

The gendered feud over the temperature setting in the office or at home might be overblown, new government-led research suggests. The study found little difference between how men and women self-reported the chilliness of their surroundings. There was also no major distinction

This airport has never lost a single bag

Japan’s Kansai airport , located on a slowly sinking artificial island in Osaka bay, opened in September of 1994 , and despite handling millions of bags per year, has never lost a single piece of luggage . According to reports from Forbes , the airport prides itself in its

How Boeing lost the space race to Elon Musk's SpaceX

Back in 2014 , the United States held its own little internal space race . NASA chose two companies to bring us back to the International Space Station, providing them with funding to build a crewed space vehicle: One established, long-proven aerospace engineering firm , and

4 takeaways from the Google antitrust trial

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Google wrapped up closing arguments in a potentially historic antitrust lawsuit on Friday. The DOJ has released a 370-page slideshow supporting its case that Google holds a monopoly over the search engine market — and offered a