The number of wildfires in the Amazon’s pristine forest region increased by 152% in 2023, study shows

The number of wildfires in the Amazon’s pristine forest region increased by 152% in 2023, study shows

In 2023, a forest fire broke out in Boca do Acre. Although deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon declined in 2023, the region still faces another challenge: fires affecting native …

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China could build the world’s largest collider, but is it worth $5 billion?

China could build the world's largest collider, but is it worth $5 billion?

China’s proposed 36 billion yuan ($5 billion) Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), also known as the Higgs Factory, would dwarf the 100 kilometers in circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. …

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Experiment opens door to millions of qubits on single chip

Experiment opens door to millions of qubits on single chip

Two qubit system in Si FinFET. a, False-color transmission electron microscopy image of the co-fabricated device showing a cross-section along the fin. b, 3D rendering of the device, showing triangular …

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Tungsten tokamak WEST sets fusion record

Tungsten tokamak WEST sets fusion record

WEST’s interior, the steady-state tokamak’s tungsten (W) environment, is where fusion records are achieved. Image source: CEA-IRFM Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) …

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New ultrapure silicon wafer opens the way to powerful quantum computers

New ultrapure silicon wafer opens the way to powerful quantum computers

Co-authors (left) Professor David Jamieson (University of Melbourne) and (right) Dr Maddison Coke (University of Manchester) inspect the P-NAME focused ion beam system used in the University of Manchester’s silicon …

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Study reveals flaws in long-accepted approximation method in water modeling

Study reveals flaws in long-accepted approximation method in water modeling

This diagram shows the rotational motion of a specific water molecule. On average, at equilibrium, the energy associated with rotational motion must equal the energy associated with the translation of …

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Strictly no dancing: Researchers discover ‘new molecular design rules’

Strictly no dancing: Researchers discover 'new molecular design rules'

Artist’s illustration of the luminescent properties of organic molecules modulated by the quantum dance of atoms.Image credit: Pratyush Ghosh, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge Ever since the discovery of quantum …

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