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  "id": 16576457,
  "title": "Seven caveats in the claim about turning mercury into gold with nuclear fusion",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/seven-caveats-in-the-claim-about-turning-mercury-into-gold-with",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-26T08:15:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu - Sci-Tech",
    "slug": "the-hindu-sci-tech",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/seven-caveats-in-the-claim-about-turning-mercury-into-gold-with-nuclear-fusion/article71626055.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In a preprint paper uploaded to the arXiv repository in July 2025, Marathon scientists had predicted this process could produce roughly 2 tonnes of gold annually for every gigawatt (GW) of thermal fusion power",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}