The classical world we see can emerge from the many-worlds picture of quantum mechanics, where many universes exist at the same point in spacetime and where almost a potentially huge number of worlds branch off from ours every time a measurement is made.
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-numerical-simulations-classical-world-emerge.html
Another fusion startup company, this one doing research on muon catalyzed fusion:
Bird flu is mutating, and other seasonal respiratory infections are also active this winter. Long covid remains a serious problem.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/perovskite-solar-cells-coating-amidinium/
trump is expected to roll back many of the rules and subsidies that have attracted billions of dollars from the private sector to renewable energy and electric vehicles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/business/energy-environment/trump-clean-energy-finance.html
The U.S. research community is holding its breath after the abrupt collapse last night of a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown on Saturday.
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-scientists-brace-looming-government-shutdown
Members of the Trump transition arrived at the Energy Department on Tuesday to meet for the first time with department leaders.
