The fusion industry must rise to its tritium challenge
Fusion still has many issues to iron out before it can become a viable energy source, as John Evans explains
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Decimal time: life in a world where our days are divided differently
Betty Barber reviews The Clockwork Conspiracy by Sam Sedgman
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What lies beneath: unearthing the secret interior lives of planets
Ian Randall reviews What’s Hidden Inside Planets? by Sabine Stanley
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Astronomers versus activists: the battle over San Diego’s streetlights
Robert P Crease recalls the time when Palomar astronomers found themselves in a fight with locals
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Why we still need a CERN for climate change
Tim Palmer says that we must pool our resources to produce high-resolution climate models that societies can use, before it is too late
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Can thinking like a scientist help us tackle societal issues?
Eva Amsen reviews Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell and Robert MacCoun
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Entangled entities: Bohr, Einstein and the battle over quantum fundamentals
Philip Ball reviews Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement by Jim Baggott and John L Heilbron
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Africa’s quantum future offers a beacon of hope
Farai Mazhandu and Mhlambululi Mafu argue that quantum technologies can help propel the continent into a new era
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Why error correction is quantum computing’s defining challenge
Steve Brierley argues that quantum computers must implement comprehensive error-correction techniques before they can become fully useful to society
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Never mind the right stuff, here’s the red stuff: how Yuri Gagarin and the cosmonauts shaped Soviet space culture
Margaret Harris reviews Cosmonaut: a Cultural History by Cathleen S Lewis
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