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Plasma Physics Dec 13, 2022

US scientists set to announce fusion energy breakthrough

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was set to announce a "major scientific breakthrough" Tuesday in the decades-long quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and stars.

Environment Nov 22, 2022

COP27's 'loss and damage' fund for developing countries could be a breakthrough—or another empty climate promise

Developing nations were justifiably jubilant at the close of COP27 as negotiators from wealthy countries around the world agreed for the first time to establish a dedicated "loss and damage" fund for vulnerable countries ...

Environment Nov 21, 2022

COP27: One big breakthrough but ultimately an inadequate response to the climate crisis

For 30 years, developing nations have fought to establish an international fund to pay for the "loss and damage" they suffer as a result of climate change. As the COP27 climate summit in Egypt wrapped up over the weekend, ...

Polymers Nov 10, 2022

Mimicking life: A breakthrough in non-living materials

Researchers at the Eelkema Lab have discovered a new process that uses fuel to control non-living materials, similar to what living cells do. The reaction cycle can easily be applied to a wide range of materials and its rate ...

Environment Nov 7, 2022

Climate summit talks begin with breakthrough on loss and damage from extreme weather

U.N. climate talks began in Egypt with a breakthrough agreement to discuss who pays for damages caused by increasingly extreme weather events—an issue that had exposed splits between rich and poor nations.

Biotechnology Oct 28, 2022

Breakthrough in CRISPR research may lead to more effective and safer gene editing

10 years ago we saw a breakthrough in modern biology.

Agriculture Oct 21, 2022

Breakthrough in protecting bananas from Panama disease

Exeter scientists have provided hope in the fight to control Panama disease in bananas.

Optics & Photonics Oct 20, 2022

Breakthrough in optical information transmission: A one-way street for optical vortices

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have managed for the first time to create a unidirectional device that significantly increases the quality of a special class of transmitted signals in optical ...

Superconductivity Oct 13, 2022

Physicists reach qubit computing breakthrough

Researchers from Arizona State University and Zhejiang University in China, along with two theorists from the United Kingdom, have been able to demonstrate for the first time that large numbers of quantum bits, or qubits, ...

Other Oct 6, 2022

Nobel winner's ingenious chemistry could lead to cancer breakthroughs

"All kinds of crazy things" is how Carolyn Bertozzi, a 2022 Nobel laureate, describes her life's work. Actually performing "chemistry in cells and in people."

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