We speak to Rob Akers, director for computing programmes at UK Atomic Energy Institute, about its new artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer.

Carbon forms the graphite in pencils, the diamonds in jewelry and the molecules that make up every living thing. But under ...

Scientists have built atom-sized pores that act like living ion channels, opening the door to next-generation nanotech.

Taylor founded Valar Atomics to build smaller, factory-made nuclear reactors. Their first reactor will begin generating in ...

Potensic’s Atom 2 is an affordable, portable drone that doesn’t require FAA registration. I appreciated how it balances that ...

AI models like Anthropic's Claude are already used to answer questions in classified settings, including for analyzing targets in Iran. But allowing them to train on and learn fro ...

US laboratory backs 3D printing for reactor parts, aiming to speed approvals, cut costs, and boost safety in next-gen nuclear ...

Quantum Computing is transitioning from experimental phases to practical applications as the AI sector hits energy limits. With a projected market growth rate of 31.6%, investments in companies ...

Scientists are exploring a new type of optical atomic clock based on ytterbium-173 ions that could help define the future standard for measuring time.

Physicists have found a new “island of inversion” in the nucleus of molybdenum-84, a perfectly balanced atom with equal numbers of protons and neutrons. The discovery upends a decades-old assumption ...

By placing single-atom-thick adlayers of p-block metals on commonly employed gold electrodes (d-block), a research team at National Taiwan University has successfully quantified the "interfacial ...

More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines ...