Another record for the Chinese Tokamak: a 160 million degree "artificial sun".
China's fusion reactor shatters another record. Tokamak is always more stable, and 10 times hotter than the sun.
China's fusion reactor shatters another record. Tokamak is always more stable, and 10 times hotter than the sun.
The ability to create structures to withstand climate change and overcrowding. It's called the future, but you can call it arcology.
An insane ship project longer than the Titanic and topped by a giant sphere incorporating a city of science. It will be ready in 2025.
The Poseidon 2M39 nuclear super torpedo worries military experts and officials: it may produce tsunamis of radioactive water capable of wiping out life from affected coasts for decades.
A battery with radioactive graphite waste trapped in thin layers of diamond can power devices for thousands of years.
Small portable nuclear reactors to continuously power vehicles and installations without connecting them to networks: the Pentagon plan takes off.
The gene bank on Svalbard shows some cracks, and a team of scientists suggests moving the seed samples more safely: to a lunar bunker.
I peeked in advance at Bill Gates' book, which in a week will tell his recipe for avoiding global disaster. Here's what I found there.
The era of electric vehicles is one step away, and aims to be completed between the next 9 and the next 15 years. But are we ready? We need 4 things, and they are not details.
Korea also builds its artificial sun, and today it is ahead of everyone: yesterday KSTAR turned on for 20 seconds.
The new Chinese plan changes responds to Covid and the cold war with the USA. Identical objectives, partly changing the modalities.
A new report from RethinkX analyzes the impact of an economy based entirely on renewables and SWB storage systems. In 10 years it would produce an unprecedented revolution.
A direct fusion engine being studied between Princeton and Turin can reduce the duration of a space trip, and exploit other advantages.
Researchers are almost certain of this: in all the studies done they find no errors. The SPARC fusion reactor can run, and generate two to 10 times the energy needed to run it.
Here is a brief compendium of the "reflections of tomorrow" for as many films about the future brought out by the entertainment industry. In parentheses what they anticipated and predicted.
The fungi found on the Chernobyl nuclear reactor continue to amaze: they are also able to absorb space radiation on the ISS. They may come in handy on the Martian colonies.
Jeffrey Schlegelmilch is the director of the Columbia University structure that deals with "predicting and preventing" end-of-the-world megadisasters.
Is infinite technological development possible in a world of finite resources? With these technologies (and their conscious use) probably yes.
A radioactive peak in Northern Europe caused a radioactive cloud (with values below the danger threshold). Suspects on two Russian nuclear power plants.
US decline does not arise from a crisis of values, but from the cynical unveiling of them. Yet there is something, if not a lot, to protect to safeguard the future.
A small journey into the fantastic world of the future seen from the eyes, or rather from the headlights of the 80s concept cars, between excesses and surprising intuitions.