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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

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2026365 stories
Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone↗ techeblog.com · HN · 109 comments · 293 points · Aug 09, 2026
Internal Combustion Engine (2021)↗ ciechanow.ski · HN · 105 comments · 334 points · Jul 01, 2026
Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite↗ thinkgeoenergy.com · HN · 124 comments · 222 points · Jun 20, 2026
Helium is hard to replace↗ construction-physics.com · HN · 273 comments · 381 points · Apr 10, 2026
CERN levels up with new superconducting karts↗ home.cern · HN · 85 comments · 395 points · Apr 01, 2026
2025579 stories
Peasant Railgun↗ knightsdigest.com · HN · 199 comments · 286 points · Jul 03, 2025
CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe↗ arstechnica.com · HN · 170 comments · 263 points · May 19, 2025
University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy↗ news.utexas.edu · HN · 207 comments · 287 points · May 12, 2025
Why it's so hard to build a jet engine↗ construction-physics.com · HN · 209 comments · 444 points · Feb 28, 2025
Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration↗ cea.fr · HN · 504 comments · 491 points · Feb 18, 2025
2024626 stories
Will we ever get fusion power?↗ construction-physics.com · HN · 297 comments · 251 points · Jun 26, 2024
Building a rocket engine from scratch↗ blog.ablspacesystems.com · HN · 93 comments · 362 points · May 02, 2024
Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades↗ tuwien.at · HN · 213 comments · 475 points · Apr 29, 2024
A tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel↗ spectrum.ieee.org · HN · 195 comments · 323 points · Apr 15, 2024
Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough↗ newatlas.com · HN · 202 comments · 249 points · Feb 21, 2024
2023700 stories
Nucor and Helion to Develop 500 MW Fusion Power Plant by 2030↗ nucor.com · HN · 19 comments · 36 points · Sep 27, 2023
Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes↗ ipp.mpg.de · HN · 12 comments · 81 points · Aug 11, 2023
A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments↗ science.org · HN · 8 comments · 62 points · Aug 01, 2023
First claimed successful replication of LK-99 superconductivity (includes video)↗ twitter.com · HN · 10 comments · 33 points · Aug 01, 2023
Iron Fuel Shows Its Mettle↗ spectrum.ieee.org · HN · 27 comments · 47 points · Jun 23, 2023
2022652 stories
Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds↗ shiningscience.com · HN · 769 comments · 705 points · Sep 07, 2022
More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade↗ growthbusiness.co.uk · HN · 663 comments · 692 points · Jul 23, 2022
Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel (2010) [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 288 comments · 597 points · May 14, 2022
Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy↗ bbc.co.uk · HN · 792 comments · 1128 points · Feb 09, 2022
Engine cooling – why rocket engines don’t melt↗ everydayastronaut.com · HN · 164 comments · 559 points · Jan 13, 2022
2021577 stories
Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab↗ imperial.ac.uk · HN · 475 comments · 524 points · Oct 12, 2021
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy↗ news.mit.edu · HN · 422 comments · 915 points · Sep 08, 2021
Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion↗ physicstoday.scitation.org · HN · 292 comments · 564 points · Aug 17, 2021
Internal Combustion Engine↗ ciechanow.ski · HN · 392 comments · 2333 points · Apr 30, 2021
Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust↗ grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de · HN · 296 comments · 534 points · Apr 01, 2021
2020464 stories
South Korea's fusion device KSTAR runs for 20 seconds at 100M degrees Celsius↗ arirang.com · HN · 310 comments · 494 points · Dec 01, 2020
New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars↗ newatlas.com · HN · 252 comments · 425 points · Oct 25, 2020
Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest↗ nytimes.com · HN · 355 comments · 622 points · Sep 29, 2020
ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly↗ bbc.co.uk · HN · 449 comments · 669 points · Jul 28, 2020
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?↗ newatlas.com · HN · 276 comments · 760 points · Feb 21, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

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Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second↗ artificialanalysis.ai · HN · 92 comments · 151 points · Sep 23, 2026
Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone↗ techeblog.com · HN · 109 comments · 293 points · Aug 09, 2026
Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2000°C↗ sciencealert.com · HN · 7 comments · 22 points · Sep 13, 2026
The largest privately owned laser just turned on↗ techcrunch.com · HN · 1 comments · 5 points · Sep 27, 2026
Silicon Valley-backed Covenant unveils low-cost, mass-producible cruise missile↗ reuters.com · HN · 1 comments · 13 points · Sep 09, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

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Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second↗ artificialanalysis.ai · HN · 92 comments · 151 points · Sep 23, 2026
Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2000°C↗ sciencealert.com · HN · 7 comments · 22 points · Sep 13, 2026
All CERN accelerators now on the road to HiLumi↗ home.cern · HN · 3 comments · 20 points · Aug 31, 2026
Silicon Valley-backed Covenant unveils low-cost, mass-producible cruise missile↗ reuters.com · HN · 1 comments · 13 points · Sep 09, 2026
Helion Moves Fusion Goalposts↗ axios.com · HN · 1 comments · 11 points · Sep 11, 2026
Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2k °C↗ sciencealert.com · HN · 0 comments · 7 points · Sep 15, 2026
The largest privately owned laser just turned on↗ techcrunch.com · HN · 1 comments · 5 points · Sep 27, 2026
Early Earth's Aurora may have made a ion-beam reactor for prebiotic chemistry↗ phys.org · HN · 2 comments · 5 points · Sep 13, 2026
Electromagnetic Launch – The Technical and Economic Realities [video]↗ youtube.com · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 24, 2026
Ten thousand magnets later – CERN Courier↗ cerncourier.com · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 23, 2026

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