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Venture capitalists and funding agencies aim to get some bang for their alternative fusion bucks, but a lot of unknowns remain
The failure rate may be 90 percent, but if any of these exotic technologies succeeds, it could significantly improve energy security and efficiency
Computers have great trouble deciphering voices that are speaking simultaneously. That may soon change
Where do rainbows come from? What about flying cars, love and LSD?
The discovery that compounds known as iron pnictides can superconduct at 50 degrees above absolute zero has reignited physicists' quest for better high-temperature superconductors, and may offer clues to unlocking a 20-year mystery
A hyped theory of everything sinks from sight
This slideshow is part of a package that supplements our story on quantum erasure in the May issue of Scientific American
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