Nuclear fusion, not here, but in another country ● James Webb is a little baby! We are shooting an even stronger telescope ● Monkeys from Bali rethink the Stone Age ● A new quirky dinosaur because you normals are fed up

• Nuclear fusion, not here, but in another country. What country? In the USA. More precisely, the researchers of National Ignition Facility announced that we are one step closer to the decades-old dream of nuclear fusion. However it comes, let us have the strength to put it in our heads. It’s true, it’s a very small step, and it happened exactly one year ago, but it’s still more than nothing. Now it has come to light that only recently people have published the results. Consider that there are more than a thousand signatories. Just their names and it still took a lot. Does not know what it means, only someone who did not write a bibliography to get off his nose. Finally. Nuclear fusion is the source of energy for stars. Here’s how they work. If we could reproduce the process, we would be energized. For the first time, they were able to simply get an amount of energy greater than that emitted by a laser, which should make everything work. Like, they managed to “set it on fire”. Now the energy produced would be enough for a cup of tea. It’s not a big problem, but let’s face it, it’s also good. No one cares how much electricity has become more expensive.

• James Webb is a little baby! We are shooting an even stronger telescope. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but over the past few months, pictures taken by the James Webb Space Telescope have been popping up online. Galaxies, planets, things like that, things that humanity has never seen before at such a resolution. If we talk about humanity, then she is a bit of a cruel lover. why Well, the James Webb telescope hasn’t even started, thanks to the efforts of the US, Canadian and European space agencies, NASA, CSA and ESA for short, that we will pull even more. Not us, Romanians, take it easy! We don’t even have money for maintenance. The good world draws its new telescope. But no, we’re also happy looking through the fence rails because they’ll also give us pictures to look at when they’re ready. When we talk about the good world, we mean the USA, Australia, Brazil and South Korea. Chile also entered the winning team with a place. That’s it. These countries provide the money, Chile provides a few acres of extra-villainous land, and all that’s missing is some aliens to shout “Bird!” on the picture. If we didn’t have aliens, say the initiators of the project, we would be satisfied with pictures of the first galaxies in the universe, a few close-ups of inhabited planets, a few black holes or, if possible, to shed light on dark matter with a white space. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from the largest telescope ever built and christened Giant Magellan. We would also give you the dimensions of the telescope, but what good would that do you? You don’t know the sizes of other telescopes by heart. Importantly, it will be the biggest, loudest and most high-resolution that Paris has ever seen. Ah, don’t rush the cookies and champagne, because they last. as? Not known! But those guys over there just got a check for over $250 million, so it won’t be long. We’ll let you know when it’s ready.

• Monkeys from Bali rethink the Stone Age. The last time some monkeys decided to invent stone tools, it didn’t go very well. Please, it is good for us that we are here today. For the planet, it was far from the happiest period of its existence. And while we’re saying that, think how much trouble Terra has seen! From the primordial meteorite bombardment to supernovae, supervolcanoes, tsunamis and even the recent events of the Romanian national football team, everything you can imagine, this planet has seen. Well, among these evils and we, humanity. But you already know that, it’s not a secret. You wonder how poor Terra didn’t hide in some corner of the galaxy where no one would see her with such shame on her head. The problem is, the future doesn’t sound too good either if you say you’re taking humanity out of the equation and letting another species in for sanity. So how should it sound? Haven’t you heard of the macaques in Bali? There are literally hundreds of records of monkeys of this species (Macaca fascicularis) having sex with rocks. So writes New Scientist. So much of their mind was taken away, to make sex toys from stones. Well, are stones suitable for them? They are good for making tools, making weapons, tinkering with them, etc. But in their minds, everything looks different. Whether they are women, whether they are men, you will see them squealing with happiness, eyes rolled and tongues sticking out as they rub against the stones as if they have just discovered their great love. And it reveals it several times a day. You are also horrified to think how these hedonists will develop. In conclusion, leave the planet, people! Something clearly went wrong during our evolutionary process.

• A new quirky dinosaur because you normals are fed up. A bizarre dinosaur the size of a cat was discovered in Patagonia. Until we explain what’s wrong with him, let’s dwell a little on the aspect of weirdness. I honestly never understood that. Every time a new dinosaur is found, there has to be someone who writes that it is strange. What do you mean weird? I mean, you’ve spent your whole life grazing with diplodocus, milking a stegosaurus when it came in from pasture, cleaning brontosaurus cribs, and riding a T-Rex to the park to pick up single moms. And suddenly a dinosaur appears, which neither you nor others have seen before, and you say that it is strange, it is impossible. Let’s be serious (ahem!), but we don’t even know 1% of dinosaur diversity. At the moment, only about 700 species are known. And they span over 150 million years. Currently, there are more than 5,400 species of mammals alone. You do the math! Finally! What is so interesting about this newfound shock? Well, for one thing, it looks like a primitive relative of Stegosaurus or something. The problem is that the cat-sized specimen, named Jakapil kaniukura to make it easier to remember, lived tens of millions of years after stegosaurs and other members of its family were already pots and pans. Accordingly, he lived in the Cretaceous period, around the time when a meteorite arrives and settles the dust. Essence? An entirely new line of dinosaurs that no one knew about had just been discovered. And this is really news worthy of naturesince that is where the study was published.