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On the Laser-Fusion Milestone
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On December 5, 2022, the National Ignition Facility recorded the first energy gain in fusion history. Daniel Jassby follows up on his recent essay to explain that, while laudable, these results have done little to advance fusion energy’s distant future, since the various technologies necessary to support such a future do not yet exist.
The Origins of Python
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Python is arguably the most popular programming language worldwide. Since its debut in 1991, Python’s accessibility and rich functionality has helped it gather a huge userbase. Its design was influenced by creator Guido van Rossum’s involvement with an earlier language, ABC. Lambert Meertens, one of ABC’s developers, recounts Python’s origins and how ABC’s design philosophy shaped its successor.
State of the Union
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Is fusion really the energy of the future? Michael Fumento explores some of the many false starts in the development of controlled nuclear fusion and considers its current prospects, including inertial and magnetic confinement, inertial electrostatic confinement, and compact reactors.
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MAD-Made World
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What, Errol Morris once asked Robert McNamara, protected humanity from extinction during the Cold War? Was it deterrence? Not at all. “We lucked out,” McNamara replied. Mankind had come within inches of the apocalypse, McNamara added, and it had come within inches of the apocalypse twenty or thirty times. Little has changed.
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A big step forward in the commercialization of perovskite materials, useful in smart windows, solar panels, and more …
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On arrival in Europe, the humble bow and arrow lent Homo sapiens an advantage over technophobe Neanderthal neighbors …
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Through the Webb, six massive, ancient galaxies have been discovered. Cosmological theory cannot explain them …
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Seeing things differently: the octopus’s brain is unique, as is the way that their visual system functions …
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The Scent of Flavor
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Had Aristotle recognized flavor as a sensation distinct from taste, he might have paid attention to how taste, flavor, and smell really work together. It was, in fact, only in the nineteenth century that this distinction was realized. Linda Bartoshuk retraces the history of our understanding of flavor, and recounts tales from her life’s work researching the chemical senses of taste and smell.
