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Colorado Will Look Like a Different State by 2080
Colorado is going to become hotter, dryer, and a lot less skiable in just a few decades, according to new research.
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6 Hacker Pioneers Who Turned the Early Internet on Its Head
In 2021, cybercrime is a normal part of everyday life. But back in the early days of the internet — that is, the 1980s and ‘90s — the hacker was a bizarre new phenomenon that the American public had never encountered before. Many of the trailblazers of this trend weren’t cynical criminals but rather bespectacled…
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How Do We Know The Nukes Still Work?
Scientists at U.S. National Laboratories are still testing nuclear weapons among the mountains, desert, and chaparral of the American West. High-tech machinery and warehouses stocked with supercomputer processors take data on warheads and explosions”yes, there are still explosions, which crack like rifle fire on schedule in the distance.
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This 200-Trillion Watt Laser Produces Plasma Hotter Than The Sun
It’s amazing that scientists can recreate natural phenomena in labs experiments, including plasma many times hotter than the center of our own sun. In the middle of the photo above you can see a little star, white hot plasma produced by a 200-trillion watt laser.