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Compared to their land-based cabbage-bothering cousins, aquatic cone snails are tough guys. They hunt by firing harpoons laced w ...
No thank you for the music Show, don’t tell Some people enjoy music so deeply they can be cheered up or moved to tears simply by ...
“You can see a world in a grain of sugar, the world of tiny molecules and miniscule forces” Investigate capillary action with a ...
ILLUSTRATION: JUSTIN METZ PHOTO: ULHAM CENTRE FOR FUSION ENERGY/EFDA X2, ITER X2, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY X4, CUL ...
Meeting global energy needs with a clean, abundant source is a Holy Grail for science. Brian Clegg reveals the pioneering projec ...
radioactive waste and works with readily obtainable fuel. A typical fusion reactor uses two isotopes of hydrogen: deuterium and ...
factor is pressure. The Sun is a massive object and the sheer gravitational pressure on the particles inside it is immense. And ...
place – the electrical charge on the particles to be fused – comes to the rescue. Ever since Victorian times we’ve known that el ...
FUSION DESIGN #2 electrical current through the plasma – a ‘disruption’ or contact with the metal vessel, which both stops the p ...
“A powerful shockwave compresses the fuel so that fusion begins. In effect it’s a tiny hydrogen bomb” (NIF), designed to enable ...
MAY 2013 / FOCUS / 41 the laser approach needs to be continually driven, limiting its efficiency. Culham’s Steve Cowley is doubt ...
Australia. Engineers there were baffled by the impact the bolt of lightning had on their lightning conductor, a copper tube, whi ...
has difficulties with the stability of the plasma. This has been an issue in tokamaks for many years, with many modifications to ...
NOAH’S ARK The Bible’s ark has fascinated archaeologists for centuries and now a new discovery purports to explain the story. Ja ...
THE TRUE STORY? The 1750BC Babylonian tablet with a cuneiform description of an ark TheThe 1750BC Babylonian tablet with a cunei ...
would have expected that because if you read your Bible you will see that Noah’s Ark was a sort of oblong wooden thing. So you h ...
IRVING FINKEL is an expert of the ancient Middle East at the British Museum and the author of The Ark Before Noah They rapidly c ...
Wildcats are swarthier than their domestic cousins. This captive adult male came to Aigas Field Centre in 2010 wild to be Born H ...
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t first I thought our wildcat quest would take us to a heathery glen with ancient Scots pines and a glorious peaty salmon river ...
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