On August 8, 2021, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California succeeded in initiating nuclear ignition in a small capsule of heavy hydrogen isotopes, proving that the fusion process could be started by using powerful lasers; now, hot on the heels of last year’s breakthrough, researchers at the sameread more
The bodies of great white sharks that have had their liver removed with what has been described as “almost surgical precision” have been washing ashore along the coast of South Africa for the last five years, with the latest batch of carcharodon corpses being discovered earlier this year. While theread more
Researchers have recovered what has been found to be the world’s oldest DNA from sediments in Northern Greenland, with the two million-year-old genetic fragments revealing a landscape from a time when the now-barren Arctic landscape was lush with a variety of flora and fauna. Beating the previous record for ancientread more
In theoretical physics an Einstein-Rosen bridge—more commonly known as a wormhole—is a structure connecting two points in spacetime that can, at least under the right circumstances, offer a shortcut between those two points in space, with the apparent distance through the tunnel being shorter than the distance between the locationsread more