The JT-60SA Experimental Nuclear Fusion Reactor, Naka, Japan JT-60SA is currently the world’s largest operating tokamak and achieved first plasma in 2023. A joint project between the European Union and Japan, it is the forerunner for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). JT-60SA has been designed to support the operation of ITER by following a complementary research and development program. image credit: National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Japan / Agence France-Presse
Squid Fishing Boats off the Argentinian Coast at Mile 201 There are no internationally agreed catch limits in the area for squid, which allows the distant-water fleets to take advantage of this regulatory vacuum. It is one of the largest unregulated squid fisheries in the world and the scale of activities could destabilise an entire ecosystem. The fleet regularly becomes so big that it can be seen from space, looking like a city floating on the sea. - EJF (abridged) image credits: Environmental Justice Foundation, London via: The Guardian - Seascape: the state of our oceans
The Large Hadron Collider under Construction The LHC is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), it lies in a tunnel 27 kilometers in circumference beneath the French-Swiss border near Geneva. - Wikipedia (abridged) image credit: Simon Norfolk
The Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine (DEUCE) photograph by Walter Nurnberg The Deuce computer, developed by the English Electric Company in the early 1950s, was based on the work of mathematician Alan Turing. It was one of the earliest British commercially available computers and a total of 31 DEUCE machines were sold between 1955 and 1964. - The Centre for Computing History (abridged) image credit: Walter Nurnberg / SSPL