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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-sustain…

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…

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 — test…

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…

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 …