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How Lunar Oxygen Extraction Works—From Dust to Air Science

How Lunar Oxygen Extraction Works—From Dust to Air

The Moon's soil is roughly 45% oxygen by weight. Engineers are now developing reactors that melt lunar regolith and use electrolysis to split that oxy...

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How Fast Breeder Reactors Work—and Why They Matter Science

How Fast Breeder Reactors Work—and Why They Matter

Fast breeder reactors produce more nuclear fuel than they consume, promising virtually unlimited energy—but their history is marked by technical failu...

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How AI Data Centers Work—and Why They Drain Power Technology

How AI Data Centers Work—and Why They Drain Power

AI data centers consume vast amounts of electricity and water to run and cool thousands of servers. Here's how they work, why demand is surging, and w...

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How Crude Oil Prices Are Set—and Why They Spike Economy

How Crude Oil Prices Are Set—and Why They Spike

An explainer on how global crude oil benchmarks like Brent and WTI determine the price of oil, and what factors—from OPEC decisions to geopolitical cr...

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How the Haber-Bosch Process Feeds Half the World Science

How the Haber-Bosch Process Feeds Half the World

The Haber-Bosch process turns atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia for fertilizer, sustaining nearly half the global population — but its massive carbon...

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How Small Modular Reactors Work—and Why Big Tech Wants Them Technology

How Small Modular Reactors Work—and Why Big Tech Wants Them

Small modular reactors promise factory-built nuclear power in a fraction of the size of conventional plants. Here is how SMR technology works, why tec...

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How Light Pollution Works—and Why It's Erasing Stars Science

How Light Pollution Works—and Why It's Erasing Stars

Artificial light at night creates skyglow, disrupts wildlife, suppresses melatonin, and has brightened Earth's nights by 16% since 2014. Here's how it...

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Slovakia Could End Oil Emergency on Wednesday Economy

Slovakia Could End Oil Emergency on Wednesday

Prime Minister Fico announced that the state of emergency in the oil sector could be lifted on April 8 if Slovnaft returns the borrowed oil to the sta...

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Poland Boasts Cheapest Fuel in the EU: Success or PR Stunt? Economy

Poland Boasts Cheapest Fuel in the EU: Success or PR Stunt?

Prime Minister Tusk announced that Poland has the lowest fuel prices in the European Union thanks to the CPN package — a reduction in VAT and excise d...

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How Silicon Photonics Works—and Why Data Centers Need It Technology

How Silicon Photonics Works—and Why Data Centers Need It

Silicon photonics replaces copper wires with light-on-a-chip technology to move data faster and more efficiently, becoming essential infrastructure fo...

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How Hydrogen Fuel Cells Power Heavy-Duty Trucks Technology

How Hydrogen Fuel Cells Power Heavy-Duty Trucks

Hydrogen fuel cells convert hydrogen gas into electricity through an electrochemical reaction, producing only water as a byproduct. Here is how the te...

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How Tokamak Fusion Reactors Work—and How Close We Are Science

How Tokamak Fusion Reactors Work—and How Close We Are

Tokamaks use powerful magnetic fields to confine superheated plasma in a donut-shaped chamber, replicating the energy process that powers the sun. Wit...

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