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Lasers Shot At Sky Can Guide Lightning

IEEE Spectrum: A powerful trillion-watt laser shot at the sky can generate lightning rods in the air that can guide lightning strikes to keep them from causing havoc, a new study finds. To date, the most common and effective form of…

NASA unveils initial plan for multibillion-dollar telescope to find life on alien worlds

Science: Astronomers are always looking to the next big thing. This week, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, researchers packed into a standing-room-only conference room to hear…

NASA And SpaceX Consider Daring Plan To ‘Reboost’ The Hubble Space Telescope

Forbes: Can NASA and SpaceX help save the Hubble Space Telescope? Launched in 1990, the world’s premier visible light space observatory has been sending back to Earth jaw-dropping images…

Supercomputing’s Critical Role in the Fusion Ignition Breakthrough

HPCwire: On December 5th, the research team at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) achieved a historic win in energy science: for the first time ever, more energy was produced by an artificial fusion reaction…