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A crumpled foil object half coated in Vantablack so the black side looks like a flat featureless hole with no visible folds

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One artist bought the exclusive right to the blackest colour ever made, so a rival invented the pinkest pink and banned him from buying it

By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 29, 2026

A white research-farm spider goats doe in a clean pen with a dew-covered spider web in the foreground

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Spiders are too vicious to farm, so scientists hid their silk gene in goats and now milk it out

By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 29, 2026

The huge spherical fusion target chamber of the National Ignition Facility studded with laser ports

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For a fraction of a second, 192 lasers recreated the heart of the sun and, for the first time, fusion gave back more energy than it took

By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 28, 2026

The glowing interior of a doughnut-shaped tokamak fusion reactor with a ring of superheated orange plasma swirling inside

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China's artificial sun held a 100-million-degree plasma steady for 1,066 seconds, becoming the first reactor ever to break the 1,000-second wall

By Bruno Teles · June 23, 2026

Scientists on a wooden balcony watching instruments above the dark graphite reactor of Chicago Pile-1

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In 1942 a refugee physicist lit the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction inside a squash court under a Chicago football stadium

By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 28, 2026

A small lab-grown diamond battery cell containing carbon-14, held in tweezers under bright laboratory light

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Scientists in Bristol found a way to turn the most stubborn kind of nuclear waste into a tiny diamond battery that powers itself for thousands of years

By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 28, 2026

The TMSR-LF1 thorium molten salt reactor, a remote experimental nuclear facility standing alone in the Gobi Desert at golden hour

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In the Gobi Desert China just got the only reactor on Earth to breed uranium-233 from thorium, six decades after the US walked away from the idea

By Bruno Teles · June 23, 2026

Two large fluffy white wolf pups from the Colossal dire wolf de-extinction project sitting together in a snowy pine forest

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A US company says it brought back the dire wolf, extinct for 12,500 years, by rewriting 20 genes in a grey wolf

By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 24, 2026

The corroded green bronze Antikythera mechanism, the ancient Greek computer, displayed in a museum with gear wheels visible

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In 1901 Greek sponge divers pulled a lump of bronze from a shipwreck, and it turned out to be a 2,000-year-old computer of gears that could predict eclipses

By Bruno Teles · June 25, 2026

A nuclear power plant with twin cooling towers beside a vast modern data center building under a dramatic sky

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Big Tech is restarting a dead nuclear reactor to feed its AI, with Microsoft paying to bring 835 megawatts back online at Three Mile Island

By Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges · June 23, 2026