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The Chinese Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak was turned on for the first time. [7] The China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor is being planned for commissioning later in the decade. Group14 Technologies has patented SCC55, a silicon-carbon composite, leading to 50% more in fully lithiated volumetric energy density than graphite used ...
26 February – Chinese astronomers report, for the first time, a high-resolution image of a lunar ejecta sequence, and, as well, direct analysis of its internal architecture. These were based on observations made by the Lunar Penetrating Radar (LPR) on board the Yutu-2 rover , part of the Chang'e 4 mission , while studying the far side of the ...
July 24 – Zheng Shouren, Chinese engineer (b. 1940) July 26 R. Stephen Berry, American physical chemist (b. 1931) Roger Williams, British hepatologist (b. 1931) Bill English, American computer engineer and co-developer of the computer mouse (b. 1929) August 1 Frank Barnaby, British nuclear physicist (b. 1927)
The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" or "two thousand twenties"; shortened to "the '20s" and also known as "The Twenties") is the current decade that began on January 1, 2020, and will end on December 31, 2029. [1] [2] The 2020s began with the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020s: Culture Wars. Americans are still ideologically polarized, but the intervening century has made it harder to define the battlefronts of a culture war along strictly geographic lines.
The Chinese experimental nuclear fusion reactor HL-2M is turned on for the first time, achieving its first plasma discharge. [126] On November 1, the National Ignition Facility records the first burning plasma achieved in a laboratory. [127] 2021 On August 8, the National Ignition Facility records the first experiment to surpass the Lawson ...
For a few days in October 2023, the capital of the science fiction world was Chengdu, China. Fans traveled from around the world as Worldcon, sci-fi’s biggest annual event, was held in the ...
The U.S. should welcome more students from China, but to study the humanities rather than sciences, the second-ranked U.S. diplomat said on Monday, noting that U.S. universities are limiting ...