The Unicorn Tears Problem

Send us Fan Mail How a quantum computer helped crack fusion's tritium crisis — and a 110-kilocalorie mistake revealed why nature refuses to be chopped into pieces What we don't love talking about is that the "clean unlimited energy" of the future currently runs on a fuel so scarce it might as well be harvested from unicorns. So the reactor has to make its own. A classical supercomputer, playing head chef, handled the bulk of the simulation: hundreds of atoms, the overall shape of the c...