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Twisted logic
If you've heard of fusion energy, you've probably heard of tokamaks. These doughnut-shaped devices are meant to cage ionized gases called plasmas in magnetic fields while heating them to the outlandish temperatures needed for hydrogen nuclei to fuse. Tokamaks are the workhorses of fusion—solid, symmetrical, and relatively straightforward to engineer—but progress with them has been plodding. Now, tokamaks' rebellious cousin is stepping out of the shadows... By Daniel Clery.
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How Ancient Microbes Gave Us Iron
Looking back through the eons at a revolution that shaped Earth’s history. By Marcia Bjornerud.
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The Race to Create Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Heats Up
Two years after the Tesla CEO crowdsourced the idea for the Hyperloop, his dream of a ‘fifth mode’ of transportation is quickly and quietly becoming a reality, but what’s his endgame? By Alexander Chee.
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They Helped Erase Ebola in Liberia. Now Liberia Is Erasing Them
Thirty young men spent months burning the bodies of the infected. A year later, many relatives and fellow countrymen still can’t forgive them. By Helene Cooper.
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Médecins Sans Frontières: A Year in Pictures
Top stories and photography from the Médecins Sans Frontières Picturedesk in 2015.
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Cancer and Climate Change
I won’t live to see how civilization gets out of this mess. But I have hope. By Piers J. Sellers.
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The Crazy Story of What Really Went Wrong at Target Canada
Target pulled the plug on its massive Canadian expansion less than two years after opening. This is the incredible untold story of how it all went wrong. By Joe Castaldo.
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When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman
On the rise and fall of American utopia. By Chris Jennings.
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The Deactivation of the American Worker
From factories to cubicles to open offices to Slack channels. By Carter Maness.
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Early in the Mornin’
Recorded at Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary by Alan Lomax c. 1947-1948
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Optibee, and Other Buzzworthy Apps For Monitoring Your Beehive
After a century of just droning along, beekeeping is going high-tech. By Cara Giaimo.
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Ride Along with the Cow Police
Cattle rustling, signature crime of the Old West, has returned to Texas. By Matt Wolfe.
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The New Women of NASA
Four extraordinary women make up half of NASA’s most recent astronaut class—and they may go to Mars. By Steven Devadanam.
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The Women Behind the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Among the institution’s earliest employees were female “computers” whose calculations made the first rocket launches possible. By Nathalia Holt.
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Extreme Fossil Hunters Dig the Dirt in Antarctica
Antarctica is home to one of the most unforgiving climates on the planet, but the fossils here could tell an important story. By Nathaniel Scharping. (May 11, 2016)
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Piles of Dirty Secrets Behind a Model ‘Clean Coal’ Project
A Mississippi project, a centerpiece of President Obama’s climate plan, has been plagued by problems that managers tried to conceal, and by cost overruns and questions of who will pay. By Ian Urbina.
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The People Who Craft World-Class Steinway Pianos
“Pretty much every job there—from sweeping the floor all the way up to installing the soundboard or performing final tone regulation—requires attention to detail.” Photography by Christopher Payne, story by Jordan G. Teicher.
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Coal-dusted portraits of WWII women railroad workers
Gritty photos capture the women who stepped in to mobilize the American war effort. By Alex Q. Arbuckle.
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The Art of Distillation
“The officers made their way down to the pair of moonshiners and went through the typical rigmarole of an arrest, everything they’d been taught. But before they started busting up the still with the axes they’d brought along, Rusty Hanna said something that caused all parties to freeze: ‘Now we’re gonna cook some whiskey.’” By Phil McCausland.
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What We Owe the White House Slaves: $83 Million
The slaves who built the White House got no pay—but their owners got up to $60 a year. So here’s what America really owes the builders’ descendants. By Michael Daly.
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