Bill Gates-backed TerraPower won the first US reactor construction grant in nearly a decade, as AI-driven data center demand is reviving interest in nuclear power.

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

This ship was huge. It was like a city-sized ship. And there was hundreds of beings on board,” said Debbie Solaris, a military veteran and one of six panelists sharing their alien encounters with a ...

When it comes to picking up a new gaming machine, I am always asking myself, should I get a desktop or a laptop? The answer ...

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming ...

In Amiri’s calculations, Dyson spheres around white dwarfs tend to produce cooler, fainter thermal emission that peaks in the near- to mid-infrared, while M-dwarf cases can radiate more strongly but ...

Commercial quantities of the required fuel are currently only available from one vendor: the Russian state.

Wind energy is taking off all over again. This time, literally. In China, a multi-institute research and development project has created a series of large-scale floating turbine prototypes. The helium ...

Assuming intelligent aliens know how to harvest energy from stars, would humanity be able to spot these high-level structures?

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved construction of TerraPower’s Natrium reactor in Wyoming, clearing the way ...