Category: Engineering

BWX Technologies has completed a new Uranium Nitride TRISO fuel production line at its Technology Centre in Lynchburg. 

Installing a chemical vapor infiltration furnace was the final step required to make the line operational. The facility…

Chinese engineers say they have cracked a fundamental bottleneck in stealth aircraft design with a new software platform that lets designers juggle hundreds of variables without piling on computing costs. 

The team, led by Huang Jiangtao at…

Archaeologists have unearthed 3,200-year-old fragments of a warrior’s bronze chest armor in southern Moravia near Brno, Czech Republic. 

It comes from the Late Bronze Age — a time often linked to the Trojan War, famously told in…

Sandia National Laboratories has developed a mobile, high-security vault to safeguard nuclear weapons in temporary or remote locations where permanent facilities aren’t an option.

The project, created at the request of the National Nuclear…

Chinese robotics startup Robotera, a spinoff from Tsinghua University in Beijing, has unveiled its next-generation humanoid robot, the Robotera L7.

According to media reports, the full-sized humanoid, which is 5.7 feet (175 cm) tall, is now the…

Cement is known for producing a significant amount of carbon emissions that pose a threat to the environment. That, however, could change following a unique discovery involving ancient times.

Tiziana Vanorio, a Stanford assistant professor,…

A novel construction method is taking shape in East Tennessee, where massive, custom-printed molds are being used to pour concrete for the nation’s first new advanced reactor in decades. 

At Kairos Power’s campus in Oak Ridge, these…

For nearly 20 years, the world’s smallest-known snake, the elusive Barbados threadsnake, had disappeared from sight. Many scientists began to fear the worst. 

They worried the tiny species, last formally recorded in 2008, might have gone…