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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has published an extensive paper confirming the validity of its 2022 fusion experiment where multiple lasers focused on a sphere of deuterium and tritium to achieve the first fusion ignition in a laboratory.Creating nuclear fusion is relatively easy to produce. All you need are the conditions that place hydrogen isotope ions under the right conditions of heat and pressure to cause them to fuse into helium. In fact, it's so easy that it was the centerpiece of a General Electric…

Grill companies have chosen CES to announce their latest Wi-Fi-enabled innovations in the past and 2024 will be no different. Middleby Outdoor, parent company of Kamado Joe and Masterbuilt, plans to debut two new models at the show, and it's offering an early preview today. For the first time in Las Vegas, the company will show off the all-new Masterbuilt AutoIgnite Series 545 and the Masterbuilt Gravity Series XT, a revamped take on the gravity-fed charcoal grills that debuted in 2020.The AutoIgnite Series 545 offers a…

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the chain reaction in a nuclear fusion just went on ad infinitum? Well, this was apparently a concern of the scientists working on the Manhattan Project, and Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer will be depicting it in earnest. As you can even see in the trailers, there’s a scene where Cillian Murphy’s J. Robert Oppenheimer and Matt Damon’s Leslie Groves discuss the possibility of destroying the world with the Trinity Test. Oppenheimer says the chances are “near zero,”…

Valorant update 7.01 is live on PC. The latest Valorant update makes changes to Agents, Competitive and Player Behaviour. As you can see from the Valorant update 7.01 patch notes below, Riot Games has opened enrolment for Premier Ignition Stage. Fans are urged to put together a team of five to seven players before the competition starts on July 20. It's worth noting that all team members must have completed Ranked Placements at least once before the July 20 deadline. Elsewhere, Riot Games has updated the ability action…

Preventing Your Windows Laptop from Turning On When You Open the Lid Many laptops with the Windows operating system are programmed by default to turn on when you open the lid of the equipment. However, if you prefer to press the “power” button to turn it on, this can be uncomfortable. If you’ve tried to deactivate this function but couldn’t find the option, it may be because it’s not located among the normal configurations of your PC, but in a section of secret settings. Mag has provided a step-by-step guide to…

Ceramic kamado-style grills have been some of the best grilling gear available for backyard cooks for a long time. However, it takes practice to master lighting them and maintaining proper temperatures. Kamado Joe aims to get rid of those frustrations with its latest smart grill. The Konnected Joe is equipped with a push-button charcoal igniter and a digitally controlled fan system. The former gets the grill going and while the latter keeps the heat level where you need it.  The Konnected Joe is a true kamado grill at its…

In today’s digital age, it sometimes feels like hardware has taken a back seat to the software that drives our devices. Button of the Month is a monthly column that explores the physical pieces of our phones, tablets, and controllers we interact with every day.It is 28 degrees Fahrenheit on top of this mountain, before you factor in the wind that’s blowing snow sideways into my face. I’m sitting on a rock with my soda can-sized backpacking stove the size of a soda can trying to make lunch and regretting my decision to go…

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Scientists have made a "breakthrough" in their quest to harness nuclear fusion.The US Department of Energy officially announced the milestone in fusion energy research on Tuesday.For the first time, researchers created a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than they put into it.The experiment, conducted on December 5 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, generated 3.15 megajoules of energy, more than the 2.05 megajoules put into creating it."Scientifically, this is the first time that…

Scientists at the world’s largest nuclear-fusion facility have achieved the phenomenon known as ignition—creating a nuclear reaction that generates more energy than it consumes. Results of the breakthrough at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF), conducted on 5 December and announced today by US President Joe Biden’s administration, has excited the global fusion-research community. That research aims to harness nuclear fusion—the phenomenon that powers the Sun—to provide a source of near-limitless clean energy on…