The race to achieve nuclear fusion is one of the most consequential technological contests of the century. Who will win it?
The interior of the National Ignition Facility target chamber at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
For almost 18 minutes in the dead of winter, scientists in Hefei, Anhui province, heated a 3.5 tonne donut-shaped device filled with plasma to more than 100 million degrees Celsius — more than six times the temperature of the sun’s core.
The January experiment was a triumphant moment for scientists at the Institute of Plasma Physics. Inside the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), a hulking silver structure capable of withstanding enormous heat and pressure, Chinese resea
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Fish farming in Xinjiang is being sold as proof that technology can overcome geography. The reality is more complicated: a desert seafood boom built on political control, imported feed and a food system that masks its real burdens.
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