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National Ignition Facility Laser System

Physics

Blasting lead with 160 lasers makes it incredibly strong, then explode

When lead is quickly brought to extremely high pressures using 160 laser beams, it suddenly becomes 250 times stronger – and then it explodes

News

steel making

Technology

Steel and concrete are climate change's hard problem. Can we solve it?

Features

steel workers

Environment

Tackling emissions from heavy industry is key to fixing climate change

Leader

The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

Humans

The Tenth Muse review: A story in which the women count

Culture

Electric car charging

Technology

Here's how we can stop a mountain of electric car batteries piling up

News

Science protest

Environment

Naomi Oreskes asks "why trust science" in an age of denialism

Culture

Paleo diet

Definition

Paleo diet

Will smith

Technology

Will Smith's action thriller Gemini Man falls into major logic holes

Culture

A sci-fi anthology offers widely divergent glimpses of the future

Space

A sci-fi anthology offers widely divergent glimpses of the future

Culture

Technology’s future isn’t gleaming, it’s dirty and biological

Technology

Technology’s future isn’t gleaming, it’s dirty and biological

We’ve always thought of tech as conquering nature, but the climate crisis is changing everything – not least what future advances will look like, argues Annalee Newitz

Comment

Life

Don't miss: a bright mind, a dark future and crowd-sourced science

Culture

Technology

Fridges made from twisty materials could be better for the environment

News

Comment

Longer life, flying, mind-bending drugs: Dreams that science made real

Comment

Humans

Gamechanger: L. X. Beckett’s latest sci-fi novel lives up to its name

Culture