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Sunday Science: New Technique To Reveal Virtual Particles

Sabine Hossenfelder Sabine Hossenfelder - Science News
The experiment this week is about an experiment which will measure nothing. But not any nothing. A very specific nothing, that's the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics.

The Challenge of Fusion Power

M. Mitchell Waldrop Knowable Magazine
Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.

Sunday Science: The Rays of the Sun

Bill McKibben The Crucial Years
The sun keeps pumping out more or less the same amount of energy day in and day out. It’s what we do down here on earth that will decide whether it cooks us or saves us.
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