Category: Engineering

Virginia-based BWX Technologies has announced that work is underway on the reactor core for the Pele microreactor at its BWXT Innovation Campus in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The Pele microteactor is a 1.5-megawatt demonstration system built for the…

In our latest episode of Lexicon, we sat down with Will Ashford-Brown, Director of Strategic Insights at Heligan Group, to discuss a compelling vision of what modern conflict looks like and what it’s becoming.

In a world where emerging…

Sound is everywhere, but now light can capture it without ever “hearing” a thing.

In a striking blend of optics and acoustics, researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have developed a visual microphone that listens using light…

A megaflash lightning has set the record for being the longest lightning ever recorded in the world. The megaflash traveled over 500 miles, roughly the distance from Washington D.C. to Detroit.

The details were revealed following the analysis of…

A startup in Germany has used a high-pressure cooker to develop superhumus, which they see as a promising solution to soil degradation and climate change, one of the world’s most critical challenges.

The cross-disciplinary team made of…

A former nuclear power generation site in Philippsburg is slated to host one of the country’s largest battery storage systems.

The utility firm EnBW has detailed plans to build a 400 MW battery facility with an 800 MWh capacity, repurposing…

Potatoes are a widely loved and consumed vegetable globally — eaten in many forms, from fries to mashed potatoes. 

Even with its common presence, the vegetable’s origins have been a long-standing scientific mystery until recently.

An…

A 2025 study on medaka embryos has revealed something remarkable: the size of a sperm’s head alone can determine whether or not it can trigger egg development across species through a process called gynogenesis.

In this rare form of…

A Washington-based company has started the construction of a nuclear fusion facility in Chelan County, Orion. Helion Energy aims to produce low-cost, clean electric energy using a fuel derived from water.

The plan is to produce electricity…

Earlier in May this year, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detected the creation of gold nuclei inside the world’s largest atom smasher. The team at the ALICE detector at the LHC, composed of scientists from the University of…