Scientists at a research lab in the US are preparing an attempt to create a nuclear fusion reaction. Whereas nuclear fission in a power plant involves splitting atoms, nuclear fusion as occurs in stars involves fusing atoms together.
If these scientists were to succeed, it could provide a vast source of energy much greater than what can be obtained by burning the Earth's fossil fuels.
According to John Sutter, in this CNN article, "If they're successful, the scientists hope to solve the global energy crisis by harnessing the energy generated by the mini-star."
The ability to harness energy from human-made nuclear fusion reactions can provide a range of options for future scenarios in cinema and fiction.
In 2004, paleontologists digging in the Canadian Arctic unearthed the
fossil of a 375-million-year-old creature named Tiktaalik that possessed
both the scales of a fish and the sturdy, jointed limb bones of a land
animal—and this single, perfect transitional fossil bridged the
evolutionary gap between water and land, showing the exact moment our
distant ancestors began to crawl out of the sea.
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In 1999, three paleontologists made a decision that would, five years
later, lead them to one of the most important fossil discoveries of the
twenty-firs...
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