Kairos Power, a maker of small modular reactors (SMRs), has broken ground on its second nuclear reactor, Hermes 2, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This is the first fourth-generation nuclear reactor that will demonstrate power production in the…
Many consumers – and state policymakers…
Voyager 1, the most distant man-made object from Earth, shut down one of its three remaining instruments as NASA worked to extend its near-half-century mission.
The Voyager probes launched in 1977 toward the solar system’s outer planets, a…
The first time the placebo effect really got under my skin was when I read that roughly one-third of people with irritable bowel syndrome improve on placebo treatments alone. Usually this statistic is presented as a fascinating quirk of…
Researchers developed a power-free wearable sweat sensor using nanocomposite fibers that passively collect sweat and detect electrolytes, metabolites, and motion simultaneously.
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 Apple’s Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO
Hardware chief John Ternus will take over from him in September. (CNN)
+ Ternus’…
NEURA Robotics and Amazon Web Services have announced a strategic agreement to accelerate Physical AI at scale. Bringing cognitive robots that can perceive, reason, and act alongside humans from development into global deployment. The…
A recent experiment by Double M Innovations shows how a simple setup can turn radioactive decay into usable electricity. The project combines tritium vials with small solar cells to create a compact, self-contained nuclear power source.
While…
A new method reveals a hidden property of light that could power future nanomachines.
