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Climate Tipping Points: The Thresholds Scientists Worry About Most
Some climate changes become unstoppable past a threshold. Here are the tipping points scientists worry about most, from ice sheets to forests.
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Protein Folding Solved: How AI Cracked Biology’s Grand Challenge
Fifty years biology failed to predict protein shapes from sequences; then AlphaFold did it overnight. How AI cracked the folding problem and…
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The Carbon Cycle: How Carbon Moves Through Air, Oceans and Life
Carbon constantly cycles through air, oceans, rocks and living things. Here is how the carbon cycle works, and how humans have disrupted…
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How Machine Learning Helps Astronomers Discover New Planets
Telescopes now drown astronomers in data, so neural networks hunt exoplanets in the deluge. How machine learning finds new worlds humans would…
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How a Nuclear Reactor Actually Works: Fission Explained
Inside every nuclear reactor, atoms are split apart to release enormous energy. Here is how nuclear fission works, from chain reactions to…
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Can AI Do Science? How Algorithms Are Discovering New Materials
AI predicts millions of new materials and robotic labs test them overnight. Can algorithms truly do science? Inside the AI-driven discovery revolution.
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Thorium: Why India Is Betting on a Different Nuclear Fuel
India holds vast thorium reserves and a unique three-stage plan to use them. Here is why the country is betting on a…
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Graphene: The One-Atom-Thick Material Stronger Than Steel
One atom thick, 200 times stronger than steel, more conductive than copper. Twenty years after sticky-tape isolation, what graphene can actually do.
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Nuclear Fusion: Why Recreating the Sun’s Power on Earth Is So Hard
Fusing atoms powers the Sun, but recreating it on Earth is brutally hard. Here is why fusion energy remains decades away, and…
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How Glass Is Made: From Sand to Smartphone Screens
Sand, soda, lime and fire: glass is a liquid's disorder frozen solid. From float lines to fibre optics to Gorilla Glass, how…