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The chief engineer for nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is joining nuclear fusion startup Fuse, the company said Thursday. James Owen spent over 28 years at Los Alamos National ...

Research team led by the Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces have created microcapsule arrays that can ...