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The lighter creates a small spark that jumps from one wire in the front pair to the other. This spark…

Years later, the San Francisco Unified School District’s efforts to close long-standing disparities in math continue to be overshadowed. In…

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Fungi are fascinating life forms that challenge traditional notions of animal intelligence. Although they have no brains, they show clear…

Tokamak’s 30-metre deep assembly pit©Enrico Sacchetti Huge in scale and ambition, ITER is a €20 billion energy project being built…

We don’t tend to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Front to back, left to right,…

Scientists have been trying to figure out how influenza spreads from animal to animal ever since they discovered influenza-infected cows…

Ryan Wills/istock/Amthitas When Seth Lloyd first pitched his idea for a quantum time loop, he didn’t consider all the consequences.…

for Alan Barr, it started during the COVID-19 lockdown. “I had a little more time. I could sit and think,”…

Inside the DIII-D tokamak fusion reactorRuth Wilcox (CC BY-SA 4.0) Fusion reactions have overcome two important barriers to operating in…