princeton
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New Kind of Fusion Reactor Built at Princeton
The stellarator has permanent magnets, a first for a fusion experiment.
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Why It’s A Lot Harder To Spill Beer Than Coffee
I think it’s well known that beer is one of mankind’s greatest inventions. But aside from the perfect taste, and ability to make in-laws seem magically more tolerable, it turns out that beer also has its very own built-in anti-spill mechanism.
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Monster Machines: This Nuke Detector Will Spot World-Ending Warheads
The US and USSR had more than 60,000 nuclear warheads pointed at each other at the height of the Cold War. While the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1970 and START in 1994 have shrunk that figure to around 26,000, nobody is really sure how many still exist — because nobody’s ever actually verified the number of…