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Not Cold Fusion All Over Again

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A desktop nuclear fusion reactor that uses electrochemistry to up the ante. Also, a global survey of human wildfire exposures finds Africa burning ahead, plus tiny swarming robots and record-breaking 2024 ice melts from glaciers on Svalbard.

Presenter: Roland Pease
Producer: Alex Mansfield
Production Coordinator: Jana Holesworth

(Image: The Thunderbird Reactor at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Credit: Berlinguette Group, UBC)
21 Aug English United Kingdom Science

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