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  "id": 4668556,
  "title": "Interstellar travel V: Warp drives, wormholes, and halo drives",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/interstellar-travel-v-warp-drives-wormholes-and-halo-drives",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-31T15:40:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-interstellar-warp-wormholes-halo.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Welcome back to our series on Interstellar Travel, where we look at the many proposals made for sending missions to the stars since the dawn of the Space Age. In our first installment, we examined how Cold War-era developments in nuclear weapons and rockets paralleled advances in space exploration, resulting in proposals for nuclear rockets. We then examined how the creation of thermonuclear…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Universe Today",
        "title": "Interstellar Travel V: Warp Drives, Wormholes, and Halo Drives",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/interstellar-travel-v-warp-drives-wormholes-and-halo-drives",
        "published": "2026-08-29T03:27:20.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}