Anyone who expresses optimism about nuclear power gets the automatic retort that ‘It was supposed to be too cheap to meter, instead it’s too expensive to build.’ There’s some truth to that, but it ...

Nuclear power is rising to meet the demand for American energy. But building new reactors or even renewing licenses of ...

Advanced nuclear technology firm Oklo is partnering with Texas-based prime and backup solutions company RPower to roll out an innovative “phased energy model” that will combine natural gas and nuclear ...

Scientists have noted chromatin's nonrandom distribution in the nucleus for more than a century, 1 and many since have sought to explain correlations between a gene's physical location and its ...

Nuclear power could be a game-changer for energy affordability, grid reliability, and carbon reduction. However, it's been stifled for decades based on one deeply flawed scientific model: the linear ...

The world’s second-fastest supercomputer is no longer just a symbol of raw computational power, it is now a central character in a high-stakes effort to reinvent how nuclear reactors are designed, ...

Selective transport through the nuclear pore complex presents a very complicated case—a lot of ins, a lot of outs, a lot of what-have-yous. To have any hope of unraveling the case, scientists based at ...

The Standard Model is the modern physical understanding of three of the four forces of nature: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force. When you purchase through links on ...

Nuclear energy is far safer than its reputation implies. It's also clean and reliable -- yet power plants are being phased out around the world. Daniel Van Boom Senior Writer Daniel Van Boom is an ...

Discussions around the threat of nuclear war have escalated in recent weeks, as Sweden and Finland look set to join NATO—and Russia saying it would not accept their membership. But what would happen ...