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The White House has ordered NASA to produce a standard time for the moon to ensure that data exchanges and communications work properly between Earth and lunar bases. Nations venturing to the moon's surface now use their own time zones for missions, but scientists have warned that this strategy will not be viable as countries plan on building moon habitats.

Scientists from the Department of Energy revealed that they had more energy in fusion for the first time than what was used to start it. This is just one step closer to completing fossil fuels with nuclear fusion. On December 5, a team of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility in California, which houses a sports stadium-sized center with 192 lasers, made the breakthrough.

According to the study, at least one of the scientists who worked at Los Alamos and later switched to China had a top-secret 'Q' level security clearance from the Department of Energy. Since 1987, congressional Republicans have requested an investigation into the allegations that at least 162 scientists who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico returned to China to help a variety of domestic research and development initiatives' between 1987 and 2021. It's the latest troubling development that has seen the Chinese Communist Party trying to extend its clout in the United States. The Republicans have also requested that China purchase farmland near military bases in North Dakota. Weapons research is one of the programs that the former US-based scientists are reported to have been working on since returning to China.