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2026-05-24 · Tags: fusion, energy, physics, tokamak, science

The inside of a fusion reactor runs at 150 million degrees Celsius. That's ten times hotter than the core of the sun. So how do you build a container for something that would vaporize every material on Earth?

You don't. You make it float.

For nearly ten years, Côte d’Ivoire has been apprehensive of a jihadist threat in the north. The apprehension was fostered by the French Government, which, in 1921, sent a mission to Fez, in Morocco, to establish there a protectorate, and which, in 1922, supplemented it with a military force. The mission was speedily followed by a protectorate, and the military force remained...

You can see it nowhere else You can see it nowhere else You can see nowhere else in the world so much peaceful domesticity, so many roofs and spires, so many trees and so much green grass, as in an English countryside. The charm of English scenery is felt by all travellers, and even those who have merely passed through the land in a railway train are sensible of it. The charm...

systems would be polluted and made unfit for beast, bird, and fish; and they queried the government, as conservators of fisheries, to give them first-class protection.

May 23, 2026 · Tags: birds, ornithology, corvids, nature, cognition

The blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) is one of the most common birds in North America, yet most people dismiss it as just another loud backyard bully. That reputation isn't entirely wrong—blue jays are noisy, aggressive at feeders, and have been caught raiding nests. But they a...