Tag: results
Record-Breaking Results Bring Fusion Power Closer to Reality
Record-Breaking Results Bring Fusion Power Closer to Reality Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reach By Tom Metcalfe edited by Lee Billings A view of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor, as seen on September 18, 2015 at…
What the First Results from the Global Flourishing Study Tell Us about Age, Employment and Partnership
Global Flourishing Study Reflects Youth Struggles and Ripple Effects of Childhood Challenges Young people are struggling; retirees are happier than employees; people in partnerships are flourishing more than those who are single. Hear the first takeaways from the Global Flourishing Study. By Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science…
SpaceX’s Ninth Starship Test Flight Delivers Mixed Results
SpaceX’s Ninth Starship Test Flight Delivers Mixed Results The largest, most powerful launch vehicle ever built is meant to be a key part of SpaceX’s plans to send humans to Mars—and NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon, too By Gayoung Lee edited by Lee Billings The SpaceX Starship rocket launches from Starbase, Texas,…
Neutrino Mass Mystery Shrinks with Latest KATRIN Results
Physicists Are Closer Than Ever to Solving the Puzzle of the Ghostly Neutrino’s Mass In just the first 259 days of data collection, KATRIN, a beta-decay-based detector in Germany, has set the smallest upper limit yet on the mass of the neutrino—the universe’s lightest massive particle By Gayoung Lee edited by Lee Billings Laser Raman…
The 2024 Red Bull Batalla International Final
The 2024 Red Bull Batalla International Final, held on November 30 at Madrid’s WiZink Center, was marred by an unprecedented controversy due to a voting error by the jury during the final battle between Spanish MCs Chuty and Gazir.