June 2021

Nuclear Fusion 139 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Team Learns How To Manipulate Light In A Plasma

     Slow and fast light, or big changes in the group velocity of light have been seen in a variety of optical media. However, the refractive index required to induce an observable effect has not yet been accomplished in a plasma.

DIY Summer Popsicles

As someone who loves to play chemist in the kitchen, I have a love/hate relationship with popsicles. I love all the different flavors and cool concoctions but have yet to find a holder that I love. Plastic stick? Wooden one? Ew. I'm better off making granita because I want to use a spoon! One year I made lightsaber holders for those little plastic popsicles you can buy which work great but I don't love the plastic... or the store-bought popsicles all that much, either!

NASA Awards Sixteen Grants For Feasibility Studies - Part 10 of 12 parts

Part 10 of 12 Parts
     Sixteen research projects drawn from NASA, the space industry and academia will receive grants from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program in order to study the feasibility of their concepts. Here are more of the projects:

Nuclear Weapons 753 - Congressional Budget Office Estimates For Nuclear Weapons Modernization Must Be Taken With A Grain Of Salt

      A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office estimates that over the next ten years, U.S. nuclear spending will be twenty eight percent higher than was estimated just two years ago. There were claims that modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal will be “far more expensive than anticipated.” That may be true but there are a lot of caveats and footnotes in that report.

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