Over the past five years, private-sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching $10 billion, from a combination of venture capital, deep-tech investors, energy ...

Engineer assembling a high temperature superconducting magnet (HTS) used to control hot plasma inside a fusion reactor. [Getty Images: Monty Rakusen] The world’s long game on fusion energy has ...

Alternative splicing is an important mechanism that regulates gene function in the nervous system, but is not well understood either mechanistically or for its roles in neuronal cell biology. Recent ...

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This video segment from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" reveals how genetic evidence helped to confirm an important component of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection: ...

Abstract: Hollow-core optical fibers (HCFs) offer promising parameters for next-generation optical communication systems due to their low latency, low nonlinearities, and reduced chromatic dispersion.

Abstract: Infrared-visible image fusion methods aim at generating fused images with good visual quality and also facilitate the performance of high-level tasks. Indeed, existing semantic-driven ...