US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
The Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) facility, which will house a compact fusion experiment device, undergoes its first exterior lighting test on September 9, 2026, in Hefei, China. (Getty Images)
United States Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy participate in a joint press conference after talks on September 6, 2026, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
Engineers work outside the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, on September 25, 2009. (Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes US Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner before their talks in Moscow on September 5, 2026. (Getty Images)
A telescope at the quantum communication ground station in Xinglong, north China's Hebei Province, January 18, 2017 (Xinhua/Jin Liwang via Getty Images)
A general view of the Huawei stand, during the Mobile World Congress, on February 27, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain (Joan Cros Garcia/Corbis via Getty Images)
Ari Dyckovsky, 17, works on quantum physics experiments in the Physical Measurement Lab, March 5, 2012 in Gaithersburg, MD (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)