Nuclear Fusion Moves Closer to Reality with New Tungsten Reactor Breakthrough

The pursuit of nearly limitless fusion energy has reached a significant milestone at an experimental reactor in France. Scientists operating the WEST tokamak successfully sustained a superhot plasma at astonishing temperatures for a record-breaking six minutes, marking a major advancement in the journey towards viable fusion power. A tokamak is a donut-shaped device that uses...

Scientists store data inside molecules that drive your metabolism and smaller than DNA

Never mind using DNA to store data -- there may be a simpler way to store info. Brown University scientists have shown that it's possible to store data in solutions of artificial metabolic molecules, such as amino acids and sugars. The presence or absence of a given molecule creates one bit of data, and the...