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James Webb Space Telescope: The Most Important Discoveries of Its First Three Years
Hubble’s Heir The James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas Day 2021, following 25 years of development and $10 billion…
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The Search for Room-Temperature Superconductors: LK-99 and What Came After
The Summer of LK-99 In July 2023, the internet briefly believed physics had been solved. A team of South Korean…
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Nuclear Fusion: Why the ’30 Years Away’ Joke Might Finally Be Wrong
Fusion power — the process that powers the sun and the stars — has been the punchline of energy policy…
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James Webb Space Telescope: The Most Important Discoveries of Its First Three Years
The James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas Day 2021 after two decades of development and $10 billion in cost.…
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The Search for Room-Temperature Superconductors: LK-99 and What Came After
In July 2023, a team of researchers in South Korea posted a preprint claiming to have discovered a material that…
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CRISPR 2.0: Gene Editing’s Second Act Is More Precise and More Controversial
Beyond Cut-and-Paste When CRISPR-Cas9 burst into public consciousness in the early 2010s, the metaphor was irresistible: genetic scissors that could…
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