Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. A worker assembles a huge impedance-matched Marx generator, which will be used to send powerful electrical pulses to the heart of Pacific Fusion’s machine.Credit: Pacific Fusion A company called Pacific Fusion has started to build a
In a country increasingly divided along political ideologies, partisan politics are coming together to answer the age old dynamic between privacy and security. On Wednesday, the blue-leaning Tempe, Ariz. turned off its Flock automated license plate readers and said the city would not seek another company to replace the system. Three hours later, the nearby
Wildfires in Indonesia this year, including this one next to a housing complex in Kubu Raya, might been intensified by the strong El Niño. Credit: DITO/AFP via Getty For Julia Cole, a palaeoclimatologist who uses corals to study Earth’s past climate, the powerful El Niño event now gaining strength in the Pacific Ocean comes as
Good morning. Intuit closed fiscal 2026 with numbers that would make most software companies celebrate. But the company is entering fiscal 2027 with a different priority: rebuilding customer acquisition, even if that means sacrificing revenue growth in the near term. For its fiscal fourth quarter, reported Tuesday, Intuit (No. 231 on the Fortune 500) posted
Charles Dennett, Lichfield: When Joe Root was involved in a 50-run partnership with Jordan Cox, it made me think that he must be close to being the player involved in the most 50-run partnerships with the greatest number of distinct batting partners. Is this true? CricViz: You’re spot on with your observation. In the partnership
Los Lunas, New Mexico A company has started to build a fusion machine that it hopes will be the first to generate more energy than it consumes, thanks to the use of immense pulses of electricity to squeeze capsules of hydrogen fuel. The billion-dollar facility, which will sit down the road from a major US
