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Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

The prize, founded and funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, aims to ape the film industry and make scientists into celebrities with a televised ceremony

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Inside of fusion reactor JET, showing a purple plasma on the right

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Brexit puts Europe's nuclear fusion future in doubt

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Old Scientist: Happily upholding ideals since issue number 1

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The world in 2076: Artificial starlight has made energy free

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The world in 2076: Artificial starlight has made energy free

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The world in 2076: That nuclear war was a bit of a bummer

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A Tv screen in South Korea shows a news report on a North Korea nuclear test

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President Trump’s defence deals may spark a nuclear arms race

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Controversial India-Japan nuclear deal to be signed this week

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Controversial India-Japan nuclear deal to be signed this week

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Life's subatomic secret: How we're cracking the Hoyle state

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North Korea's nukes are nearly ready for launch. Now what?

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Technology

The reaction that would give us clean fossil fuels forever

Crack natural gas into its constituent atoms and you can burn it without producing CO2 – giving us green energy without all the pain of renewables

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UK approves controversial Hinkley C nuclear power plant

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Physics

Cold fusion: Science's most controversial technology is back

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Physics

Cold fusion is better left out in the cold

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North Korea’s largest nuclear test still lacks missile capacity

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