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Description: Camera image of a plasma inside the TCV tokamak, regions of different colors correspond to different temperatures of the hot plasma. The center of the plasma is so hot that it does not emit visible light. Credit: Curdin W?thrich / SPC/EPFL

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DeepMind uses AI to control plasma inside tokamak fusion reactor

For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to control the super-hot plasma inside a fusion reactor, offering a new way to increase stability and efficiency

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Alex Keshavarzi interview: How muons could reveal exotic new physics

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Alex Keshavarzi interview: How muons could reveal exotic new physics

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A barn owl in flight

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Giving drones barn owl-like tails may make them more efficient flyers

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Do we create space-time? A new perspective on the fabric of reality

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Do we create space-time? A new perspective on the fabric of reality

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Strongest ever magnetic field fails to make predicted exotic particles

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Strongest ever magnetic field fails to make predicted exotic particles

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carbon nanotubes

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Quantum friction explains strange way water flows through nanotubes

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Game theory shows how people crowd on trains at rush hour

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MEK84H Sun fusion energy and Artificial intelligence technology can help physicists predict hazardous solar flares and warning to protect power grids and com

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How does the sun shine? Here's why we are still a little in the dark

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Black hole merger event

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Watch two black holes merge and zoom across galaxy

When a pair of black holes merge, the resulting larger black hole can be sent hurtling away at extraordinary speeds – and now astronomers have seen it happen.

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Physics

Advances in physics may seem abstract at first but tech often follows

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Physics

The Large Hadron Collider blips that could herald a new era of physics

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Physics

What the thermodynamics of clocks tell us about the mysteries of time

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Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantum entangled

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