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A 20-year power purchase agreement funds turbine, steam generator, and digital control upgrades at 11 existing reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
Tesla's cars now do the power conversion that usually requires a $6,500 wall box, adding two to three days of backup during an outage.
Lunar Grounding Challenge targets the static charge a spacesuit builds at the South Pole, especially inside permanently shadowed craters, before a moonwalker arcs into the lander.
Compressing a decade-long build into an 18-month factory-to-fuelling window turns distributed nuclear from concept into a project with a clock, a customer, and an Indigenous-led operator.
A Seoul-Yonsei team programs a chip's response behavior after manufacture — the substrate gains a knob, not a faster engine.
Three late-2025 deals promise more than 10 gigawatts of AI compute. The memory, optics, cooling, and power chain that has to build it does not yet exist at that scale.
Georgia Tech's new method doesn't shrink a photonic bend. It makes the search refuse any geometry a real foundry won't print.
ETH Zürich, Germany's CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, and NYU researchers propose Terracotta, a programmable DRAM memory controller and composable primitives that let new memory techniques ship by configuration, not a chip redesign.
Department of Energy researchers combined three ultrafast techniques — two X-ray methods at SLAC's LCLS X-ray free-electron laser paired with femtosecond (quadrillionths-of-a-second) optical spectroscopy — to watch the reaction in a model system,
Virginia's Oct. 1 energy plan models how data centers, not households, can fund a carbon-free grid by 2050, and publishes the $90 billion number its opponents are already using against it.
Both labs meter subscriptions through internal credits whose costs change with each model release, so the same monthly price buys a different workload each week.
A new French industrial facility produces a short-lived medical isotope for targeted alpha therapy, the emerging class of cancer treatments gated by an atomic clock.