The Nuclear Renaissance Faces a Problem: Reality

All across the globe, new nuclear power plants are being built and some shuttered plants are even being revived as countries look for more ways to create clean, cheap electricity. But the nuclear renaissance faces problems.

Why CERN’s New Collider Plans are Dead on Arrival

CERN wants to build a new particle collider which will smash protons together at roughly 6 times the energies seen at the Large Hadron Collider. This project is likely to cost more than $40 billion and wouldn’t be operational until the 2070s. Let’s take a look at why a growing number of physicists are saying we’d be better off without it.

New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)

AI industry leaders are promising that we will soon have algorithms that can think smarter and faster than humans. But according to a new paper published by researchers from AI firm Anthropic, current AI is incapable of understanding its own “thought processes.” This means it’s not near anything you could call conscious. Let’s take a look.

No, Matt, this is no crisis

This is a comment on a recent video by Matt O'Dowd.

I find it extremely distressing that we are still discussing this even though it's abundantly clear that naturalness arguments have historically worked extremely badly. It's a pseudo-scientific method that physicists need to stop using.

We Already Have Evidence Of Dark Matter, Researchers Say

Physicists have been searching for direct evidence of dark matter for decades, but it’s eluded them… up until now, maybe. According to a group of astrophysicists, the key to detecting dark matter is actually hidden in an anomaly at the center of the Milky Way, one that scientists first detected over a decade ago. But are they right? Let’s take a look.



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Why US Professors are talking about facism

The political situation at US-American campuses has been developing quickly, with some claiming that Trump’s actions are signs of facism, dictatorship, or authoritarianism. Today I have a quick summary of what has happened in the past weeks.

First Nuclear Fusion Powered Rocket Design Unveiled

The company Pulsar Fusion recently unveiled their design plans for a new nuclear fusion powered rocket. This idea isn’t as crazy as you think – let’s have a look.

Amazon’s Quantum Breakthrough That Everyone Missed

While Microsoft’s Majorana quantum computing chip might have grabbed all the headlines earlier this year, Amazon appears to have quietly made some big progress in the quantum computing race. Their new Ocelot chip uses cat qubits to support a scalable architecture that reduces errors by up to 90%. What does that mean? Let’s take a look.