'Star in a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy
For several decades now, scientists from around the world have been pursuing a ridiculously ambitious goal: They hope to develop a nuclear fusion reactor that would generate energy in the same manner as the sun and other stars, but down here on Earth.

Incorporated into terrestrial power plants, this "star in a jar" technology would essentially provide Earth with limitless clean energy, forever. And according to new reports out of Europe this week, we just took another big step toward making it happen.

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NASA's working on a nano-starship that travels at 1/5 the speed of light
April, a team of scientists including Stephen Hawking announced a mind-boggling new project to explore interstellar space, using lasers to propel a nano-spacecraft the size of a postage stamp to our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.

If they could get their little 'StarChip' spacecraft to travel at 20 percent the speed of light, it could arrive in just 20 years. But how would the electronics on such a tiny, vulnerable spacecraft survive for 20 years in the hostility of space?

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This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Mojave" site, where its drill collected the mission's second taste of Mount Sharp.

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Super-you: Your body is a nation of trillions
Last night, while you were sleeping, legions of eight-legged creatures had an orgy between your eyebrows. No, you haven’t suddenly been invaded by sex tourists. Demodex mites, close relatives of ticks and spiders, are permanent and mostly harmless residents of the human face.

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NASA Aborts Hurricane Satellite Constellation Launch Over Pump Glitch
The Orbital ATK L-1011 carrier plane, the Stargazer, is seen in midflight during its first attempt to launch NASA's CYGNSS hurricane satellite mission aboard a Pegasus XL rocket

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This is what monkeys would sound like if they could produce human-like speech
Monkeys and apes can't learn new vocalisations such as human speech sounds, and now scientists think they know why.

Thanks to detailed X-rays of macaque monkeys, we now know that their vocal tracts are flexible enough to produce a wide range of sounds making up thousands of distinct words. That means the reason they can't speak is likely related to how their brains work, rather than any physical limits on their vocal anatomy.

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Simulated Macaque Speech: Will you marry me?

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A new JunoCam image highlights a massive rotating storm in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere⁣
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Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence?
Alien life could be so advanced it becomes indistinguishable from physics.
Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke was being uncharacteristically unambitious. He once pointed out that any sufficiently advanced technology is going to be indistinguishable from magic. If you dropped in on a bunch of Paleolithic farmers with your iPhone and a pair of sneakers, you’d undoubtedly seem pretty magical. But the contrast is only middling: The farmers would still recognize you as basically like them, and before long they’d be taking selfies. But what if life has moved so far on that it doesn’t just appear magical, but appears like physics?

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Top 10 science stories of 2016
Gravitational waves, Zika, Proxima b and more

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Year in review: 10. AlphaGo scores a win for artificial intelligence
In a hotel ballroom in Seoul, South Korea, early in 2016, a centuries-old strategy game offered a glimpse into the fantastic future of computing.

The computer program AlphaGo bested a world champion player at the Chinese board game Go, four games to one (SN Online: 3/15/16). The victory shocked Go players and computer gurus alike. “It happened much faster than people expected,” says Stuart Russell, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. “A year before the match, people were saying that it would take another 10 years for us to reach this point.”

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Year in review: 9. Ozone hole officially on the mend
In a rare bright spot for global environmental news, atmospheric scientists reported in 2016 that the ozone hole that forms annually over Antarctica is beginning to heal. Their data nail the case that the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty drawn up in 1987 to limit the use of ozone-destroying chemicals, is working.

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