February 19, 2023. Fires blazed through a protected wilderness in northeastern Argentina in February 2023. Home to jaguars, capybaras, and giant anteaters, Iberá National Park has reportedly been burning since...
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ITER, France. Nuclear Fusion Resultant Clean, Green Energy. “Commissioning. THE (TEMPORARY) MAIN CONTROL ROOM IS OPERATING.”
Written by Pat Brans. In November 2022, “ongoing operations” started in the temporary main control room. This important milestone is another sign of the progress in systems commissioning. Since...
PF1 passed the ITER gates at around 4:15 a.m. on Friday 10 February. The long journey had begun on 1 November 2022 when the coil departed the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard...
January 2, 2023. North of Iwo Jima, Japan, a triple-peaked seamount called Kaitoku lies about 100 meters (300 feet) below the water’s surface. Of the three underwater volcanic peaks, only the...
Cryogenics play a central role in the ITER Tokamak: the machine’s superconducting magnets (10,000 tonnes in total), the vacuum pumps, thermal shields and some elements of the diagnostic systems...
January 17, 2023. Plumes of steam and other volcanic gases from Chile’s Villarrica volcano were captured in this photo taken from the International Space Station on January 17, 2023. They are...
January 29, 2023. A slow-moving storm has swamped northwestern Madagascar with rain, triggering flash flooding and landslides in January 2023. Tropical Storm Cheneso—which later grew into a tropical cyclone—has killed...
January 24, 2023. In February 2019, a rift spanning most of the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica appeared ready to spawn an iceberg about twice the size of New York...
August 11, 2022. An astronaut on the International Space Station took this photograph during a rare clear day over Ireland and Great Britain. The wide view captures the contrasting...
January 11, 2023. Just after 4:30 p.m. local time on January 5, 2023, Kilauea—Hawaii’s youngest and most active volcano—began erupting once again. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian...