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Fusion Researchers Set New Record For Ignoring My Wish To Be Consumed By The Heat Of Seven Suns

Good News For Species Sick Of Existing: Scientists Have Taught An AI How To Manipulate Jillion-Degree Plasma

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Scientists Move Another Step Closer To Harnessing The Unfathomable Power Of A Star

Could A Handful Of Swallowed Metal Ball Bearings And Exposure To The World’s Strongest Magnets Cause My Torso To Explode Into A Cloud Of Viscera? A Scientific Examination

Terrifying New Record Achieved In Humanity’s Quest To Manufacture A Literal Star

Fatima Ebrahimi of PPPL and an illustration of her proposed "plasmoid rocket" concept.

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If Scientists Are To Use Tokamak Rockets To Send Man To Mars, They Must Agree To Use My Face As The Launch Pad

Mankind One Step Closer To Dominion Over Star Juice

A look at my fully operational JET-style tokamak, churning out big numbers of what could be power but might in fact be deadly radiation.

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They Made An Interactive Virtual Tokamak And Buddy, It Rules

Rendering of SPARC, a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Its mission is to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy.

Two Fusion Researchers Explain The Tokamak Reactor That I Want To Be Hurled Into

An engineer walks past a hulking cryostat in the construction zone of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, in France.

If Scientists Are To Create And Harness The Unfathomable Power Of A Star, They Must Agree To Hurl Me Into It

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