Humanity’s nuclear arsenal is capable of destroying all life on Earth. Over. And over. And over. Maybe it’s time we dumped it far away. We might want to inhabit other planets in the future, so how about our closest star? How many nukes could we throw at the Sun? What […]
Scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) have achieved the phenomenon known as ignition. In other words, they created a nuclear reaction that produces more energy than it consumes. Because ignition projects often ended in failure, many believed that ignition was simply not possible. But in the end, the group […]
