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Extreme droughts weaken trees’ ability to soak up carbon
There’s a mystery inside trees upon which the fate of coastal cities, threatened by rising sea levels from…
September 14, 2021 · Boomi Nathanupsc
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From Smokey Bear to climate change: the future of wildland fire management
Current conditions in the West demonstrate that our US fire management system is struggling and approaching a state…
September 14, 2021 · Boomi Nathanupsc
Nuclear fusion, the clean power that will take decades to master
The Joint European Torus Nuclear fusion is what powers the Sun and the stars –…
September 14, 2021 · Boomi Nathanupsc
For decades a distant dream, the countdown to nuclear fusion may have finally begun
The latest results from the National Ignition Facility in the US represent the passing of a nuclear fusion power milestone and come…
September 14, 2021 · Boomi Nathanupsc
Before fusion: a human history of fire
We humans are fire creatures. Tending fire is a species trait, a capacity we alone possess – and…
September 14, 2021 · Boomi Nathanupsc
Fusion energy: A time of transition and potential
For centuries, humans have dreamed of harnessing the power of the sunto energize our lives here on Earth. But…
September 14, 2021 · Boomi Nathanupsc
Why nuclear fusion is gaining steam –again
Back when I studied geology in grad school, the long-term future of energy had a single name: nuclear…
September 14, 2021 · Boomi Nathanupsc
Elements from the stars: The unexpected discovery that upended astrophysics 66 years go
Nearly 70 years ago, astronomer Paul Merrill was watching the sky through a telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena,…
September 14, 2021 · Boomi Nathanupsc
The Standard Model of particle physics: The absolutely amazing theory of almost everything
The Standard Model. What dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings. More than…
September 14, 2021 · Boomi Nathanupsc
Electric dipole moment in the quantum world
The story of EDM, however, is very different in the quantum world. There the vacuum around an electron…
September 14, 2021 · Boomi Nathan