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China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds (www.livescience.com)
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The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor maintained a steady, highly confined loop of plasma — the high-energy fourth state of matter — for 1,066 seconds on Monday (Jan. 20), which more than doubled its previous best of 403 seconds, Chinese state media reported.

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[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 4 points 2 months ago

Ok, while you two are fighting over which holy soil has the fastest trains, Canada, Austrailia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Japan are going to join the EU and have a party without you

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