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At present, two primary techniques being used for the nuclear fusion are the inertial confinement approach and the tokamak reactor. Scientists at the Institute of Plasma Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Jiangsu province have revealed that their tokamak reactor’s plasma achieved a temperature of 50 million Kelvins (or, 49.999 million degrees Celsius) within 102 seconds of initiating the experiment.

This was around three times more than the temperature of the sun, nearly 15 million Kelvins at the core of the sun. The temperature achieved was nearly equivalent to a thermo-nuclear explosion of mid-density.

A competition for the development of a pod-like express vehicle was earlier launched by Elon Musk-led SpaceX. A group consisting of 20 engineering students and advisers from UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been selected among the finalists. The team is called UCSB Hyperloop.

The competition involves a senior project, which is an opportunity of lifetime. SpaceX is a popular private space technology company which indulges in designing, producing and launching self-made rockets and spacecrafts. The competition is particularly for university students and independent engineering teams.

In a hope to understand the mechanism of sneeze, MIT's Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory carried out an experiment where volunteers participated in sneezing activity and their sneezing moments were captured through camera.

The researchers, through their research, wanted to find out how the infection carrying sneeze spreads diseases through environment. “It’s important to understand how the process of fluid breakup, or fluid fragmentation, happens, what is the physics of the breakup telling us in terms of droplet size distribution, and the resulting prediction of the downstream range of contamination”, said lead author of the study, Lydia Bourouiba.

To clear the doubt whether rubber turf in fields could pose a serious threat to players by raising the risk of cancer, the Obama administration has hired three federal agencies to investigate the link. Rubber turf is made of recycled tire materials and is used in most sports fields and kids’ play grounds all over the nation.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will examine the link between exposure to rubber turf and cancer, and any adverse effect on the health of players.

Wearing only their undergarments, 1,600 participants covered a distance of 7-tenths of a mile down I Street Northwest, toward 18th Street. The participants covered the distance on foot in sub-freezing temperatures by walking, jogging and running. The run was part of the seventh annual Cupid’s Undie Run on February 13, 2016.

Researchers have revealed that a strange brain disorder, known as primary progressive aphasia (PPA), is likely to be mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease in its early phase. The reason for confusion is that PPA syndrome makes a patient forget words, but in case of Alzheimer’s disease, patients lose their memories and not words only.

Researchers said that they are on the quest to discover improved diagnostic methods for this very obscure disorder. The new methods will be aimed at assisting patients, who are very clear in their thoughts, but are not able to orally express their feelings for gaining proper care.