PPPL physicist Roscoe White and colleagues have fostered an understanding of a barrier that can prevent threaded fusion facilities known as tokamaks from operating with high efficiency by losing vital heat. Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Communications Office Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) …
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MLB 2020 season: Giancarlo Stanton, Andrew McCutchen among the best candidates to win the return of the player of the year
Watch now: Home Run Leader in 2020: Best Bet (1:05) Considering the severity of the pandemic and the persistent disconnect between Major League Baseball and the MLBPA, the fact that we have a season could be considered a return story in itself. The entire reason for the delay, of course, …
Read More »Alonzo Brooks’ grave is exhumed 16 years after his death after Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries”
Investigators have exhumed the body of Alonzo Brooks 16 years after his death at a Kansas party after a surge in interest in his case when he appeared on Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries docuseries. Brooks was 23 when he disappeared after the party in the rural town of La Cygne on …
Read More »This is what the next 10 years of LoL Esports will look like
It’s a lot of information at a glance, and until today’s rebranding, it was difficult to navigate the LOL eSports ecosystem even on Riot’s own sites. “Right now, if you said ‘Hi, I want to see the LPL’ and went to our channels, you would be honestly lost,” said David …
Read More »Scientists ‘shocked’ by high levels of microplastic contamination in London’s Thames
LONDON – Just over 60 years after it was declared “biologically dead”, England’s Thames River had been hailed as an environmental success. But while much of the effluents, chemicals, and heavy metals that used to pollute the river are gone, microplastics have taken their place. Mammals such as porpoises, seals, …
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