The fusion energy industry’s funding euphoria is showing its first real fractures, with two marquee companies rushing toward public markets before clearing the scientific threshold that would prove their reactors can actually work. TAE Technologies and General Fusion have both announced mergers with publicly traded shells in recent months, moves that have split founders, investors, […]

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Astronomers have built a virtual universe detailed enough that its simulated galaxies are nearly indistinguishable from the real ones the James Webb Space Telescope sees in deep space. The project, called COLIBRE, traces cosmic evolution from the first billion years after the Big Bang to the present day, and for the first time in a […]

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Some people retain every kindness with photographic precision and lose every compliment within hours. The asymmetry is not sentimentality — it is a measurable cognitive bias with real consequences for how people hold up under stress, isolation, and long-duration work.

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Israeli forces have reportedly killed 91 healthcare workers and wounded more than 200 others in Lebanon since the current war with Hezbollah began in early March, according to Lebanese health ministry figures, in a pattern of strikes that emergency responders now describe using a new term of art: the quadruple tap. The phrase emerged from […]

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket’s third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an “off-nominal” orbit.