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Nuclear power has a lot of potential, but many fear the dangers of nuclear meltdowns. Fortunately, some new reactors might make that possibility even slimmer.

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Troy James Hurtubise wore many labels during his lifetime. As we revisit his legacy on the anniversary of Project Grizzly, we ...

It's cold and snowy in much of the U.S. right now, but hard as it may be to believe in some parts of the country, heat season will eventually come again, and hotter summers are increasingly a risk for ...

Heat travels across a metal by the movement of electrons. However, in an insulator there are no free charge carriers; instead, vibrations in the atoms (phonons) move the heat from hot regions to cool ...

Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...