World's Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New Documents Reveal

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June 16, 2023

Renewable Energy World's Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New Documents Reveal The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is already billions of dollars over budget and decades behind schedule. How much more money and time it will take to complete, not even its leaders can say By Charles Seife

Consciousness Why Dying People Often Experience a Burst of Lucidity New research shows surprising activity levels in dying brains and may help explain the sudden clarity many people with dementia experience near death By Jordan Kinard

Renewable Energy In a First, Wind and Solar Generated More Power Than Coal in U.S. Wind and solar produced more U.S. power than coal during the first five months of this year, as several coal plants closed and gas prices dropped By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Culture A New English Dialect Is Emerging in South Florida, Linguists Say By Phillip M. Carter,The Conversation

Sexuality The First In-Depth Study on 'Blue Balls' Reveals a Lot about Sex Arousal without orgasm isn't dangerous, so why are people pressured to engage in unwanted sexual activity to avoid it? By Timmy Broderick

Mathematics Here's How Hackers Steal Your Password and How You Can Create a Safer One To craft a better password, first learn how people crack them By Manon Bischoff

Space Exploration Bad Data, Not Aliens, May Be behind UFO Surge, NASA Team Says More and better data are required to solve the mystery of strange apparitions in the air, the sea and space, according to NASA's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study team By Leonard David

Mathematics Cleo, the Mysterious Math Menace In 2013 a new user named Cleo took an online math forum by storm with unproved answers. Today she's an urban legend. But who was she? By Allison Parshall,Tulika Bose,Carin Leong | 11:46

Fitness Can You Change Your Metabolism? Though you might not be able to significantly rev up your metabolism, there are ways to boost the energy your body burns while doing nothing By Emily Willingham

Astronomy At Last, Astronomers May Have Seen the Universe's First Stars Telltale evidence gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope suggests we're closer than ever before to finding elusive Population III stars By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Climate Change Canada's Wildfires Are a Warning of the East Coast's Smoky Future Ontario and Quebec could see wildfires grow more intense and frequent as a changing climate brings unusually hot and dry conditions By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Paleontology Evidence of 1-Billion-Year-Old 'Lost World' of Microbes Discovered beneath Australian Outback Fatlike compounds in ancient rocks point to a vast array of previously unknown microbes that once dominated complex life on Earth By Heidi Ledford,Nature

BRING SCIENCE HOME Build the Best Big-Bubble Wand Bigger and bigger... How big can you make a giant bubble before it pops? Try this simple science activity and find out! Credit: George Retseck Have you ever tried to blow a bubble, and no matter how hard you try—that bubble just won't form? Why does this happen? Why do bubbles form at all? And why is it harder to blow bubbles sometimes? In this activity we're going to explore how bubbles form, and test the limits of how big our bubbles can get!

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