(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, ...

French startup NAAREA develops a 40 MW molten salt microreactor powered by nuclear waste, aiming to decentralize clean energy.

The “Blaze Star” is a rare nova that could produce an explosion visible with the naked eye in the next few nights, located about 3,000 light years from Earth and part of the ...

The US has started making a nuclear bomb seven months before planned. The world-ending B61-13 nuclear weapon unit can carry a ...

The B61-13 will replace the B61-7 and B61-11, and is a fusion of the two designs. The new bomb will feature a maximum yield ...