19 Apr 2026, 10:13 UTC≈1,120 views3 reactionsread 7 August 2026 ITER slipped to 2034. The money went elsewhere.
Private fusion funding has 8× since 2021, but the physics has not kept pace — and the only state with a published commercial deadline is China.
John Lawson's 1957 criterion — the density × temperature × confinement-time threshold a plasma needs to cross for a self-sustaining fusion reaction — has been the universal yardstick for 69 years. For 65 of them it was the goal…
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17 Apr 2026, 07:27 UTC952 views3 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Two weeks compressed the quantum clock. Nobody is ready for what comes after.
The qubit count needed to break internet cryptography fell by 40x, then again by 20x, within a fortnight — and that is not the surprising part.
Since Peter Shor's 1994 paper, public-key cryptography has had an invisible expiry date stamped on it. RSA, ECC, Diffie-Hellman all rest on problems that a large enough quantum computer factors in …
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11 Apr 2026, 04:29 UTC≈1,040 views8 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Psychiatry's quiet revolution isn't where you think
While psychedelics grabbed headlines, a molecule nobody's heard of quietly became the most promising psychiatric breakthrough in decades.
The psychedelic therapy movement hit a wall in March. The EPISODE trial — the most rigorously blinded psilocybin study ever — tested 25mg in 144 patients with treatment-resistant depression and missed its primary endpoint: 17% re…
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9 Apr 2026, 03:27 UTC987 views6 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Democracies Are Losing — And the West Is Where It's Happening
For the first time in 20 years, autocracies outnumber democracies globally, and six of the ten countries sliding fastest are in Europe and North America.
Two flagship democracy indexes published within 24 hours of each other in March told the same story from different angles. Freedom House recorded the 20th consecutive year of global freedom decline — onl…
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8 Apr 2026, 08:58 UTC≈1,200 views8 reactionsread 7 August 2026 The cancer drug revolution just got an upgrade
Between a CRISPR injection that could kill the $500K price tag and an AI vaccine hitting 75% response rates, the economics of cancer treatment are about to break open.
The biggest story is a Nature paper from UCSF that could reshape cancer treatment economics. Researchers used CRISPR nanoparticles to create CAR-T cells directly inside the body — no extraction, no lab, n…
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2 Dec 2025, 08:53 UTC≈3,310 views12 reactionsread 7 August 2026 🧬 The Heavy Truth About Living Forever
🏃♂️ Move Your Ass, Even If It's Big
Reju Report, British Journal of Sports Medicine
Here’s a kick in the pants for the "skinny fat" crowd: being thin doesn't mean shit if you can't run up a flight of stairs. A massive meta-analysis of nearly 400,000 people found that cardiorespiratory fitness is a stronger predictor of longevity than BMI; in fact, being unfit and normal weight…
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13 Jul 2025, 15:54 UTC≈8,330 views31 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
👽 New Features in Space Frontiers
- We now offer AI-powered search exclusively across standards, manuals, PubMed, Wikipedia, and more.
- We have added the advanced Kimi 2 model, enabling deep searches across a vaster range of publications.
- Publications at the site are commentable, so feel free to share any insights on publications and participate in discussions.
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27 Jun 2025, 15:08 UTC≈117,000 views24 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Video
🎯 Newly Published Research Feed — Relaunched!
Space Frontiers now offers a live feed and RSS for newly published papers. Discover the latest research from all publishers on your favorite topics - delivered daily to your preferred RSS reader!
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12 May 2025, 20:49 UTC≈98,300 views30 reactionsread 7 August 2026 🌎 Space Frontiers 🪐
Now you can create your own scholarly digest, ask scientific questions, navigate and find related papers, translate articles, and explore an extensive collection of science, books, standards, manuals, and magazines at https://spacefrontiers.org.
Simply enter your question and await the response.
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2 Mar 2025, 20:02 UTC≈12,500 views22 reactionsread 7 August 2026 🔴 Mars Research
🧪 Ancient Mars Was Cold and Wet, Not Just Dry
Adomas Valantinas, John F Mustard, Vincent Chevrier
Scientists found that Mars' red dust contains a mineral called ferrihydrite, not just hematite as previously thought. This suggests Mars had a cold, wet period in its early history before becoming the desert we see today. This challenges the idea that Mars has always been dry. (?)
🚀 Mars Sample Collect…
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28 Feb 2025, 20:56 UTC≈7,450 views12 reactionsread 7 August 2026 🧠 Theory of Mind Research
🤖 Automated Bayesian Theory of Mind for Open-ended Reasoning
Zhining Zhang, Chuanyang Jin, Mung Yao Jia
Researchers introduced AutoToM, a novel automated Bayesian Theory of Mind method that can operate in any domain, infer any mental variable, and conduct robust ToM reasoning of any order. Unlike previous approaches that rely on either error-prone LLMs or rigid handcrafted models, AutoToM i…
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7 Feb 2025, 14:27 UTC≈6,270 views6 reactionsread 7 August 2026 🤖 Building AI-Optimized Data Centers Digest
💡 Shift to Data-Centric AI Development Paradigm
Daochen Zha, Zaid Pervaiz Bhat, Kwei-Herng Lai
A comprehensive survey reveals a paradigm shift from model-centric to *data-centric AI*, emphasizing systematic data engineering across the entire lifecycle. This approach could reduce AI system development costs while improving reliability through better training data management…
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