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A 2,491-pound Irish underwater drone spent 18 days hunting hydrothermal vents in the Greenland Sea through a 3,000-volt cable from a research ship, and the whole rig weighs 22 tons
US scientists blast a tungsten ‘sponge’ with neon inside a fusion reactor after every factory cleaning failed, and it comes out 87% pure metal
A 20-megawatt reactor in Sydney that can’t power a light bulb has irradiated 990 tons of silicon in 20 years, letting its neutrons turn silicon atoms into phosphorus one by one for the chips that switch current in EVs and trains
A 21-pound underwater drone caught oxygen-starved water rising from the bottom of the Baltic to the surface off Germany after two days of east wind, in shallows where research gliders can’t operate