IFLScience says a 17-year-old London student recently built a nuclear fusion reactor for a high school class project. Cesare Mencarini taught himself electrical engineering and coding in order to create plasma. While he didn't achieve fusion, his work impressed experts who offered him a job working on larger reactors next year. Cesare plans to pursue a degree in engineering.

Flip The Script Survey: When you were younger did you ever have a hilarious disaster while working with classmates on a class project? If so, what happened? What did your teacher say? What did your other classmates do while the disaster was occurring? Did something explode? Did something go wrong during a dissection? etc etc.