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Nuclear power constitutes an essential source of energy in many countries worldwide, including France, U.S., China, and Japan, among others. While nuclear power plants have less environmental impact than coal power plants with regards to climate change, the technology employed in them can be used for undesirable purposes, namely the production of materials for nuclear weapons.

For nearly a week, frigid temperatures from Chicago to northern Texas have made life painful for electric-vehicle owners, with reduced driving range and hours of waiting at charging stations.

Four recent catastrophic building collapses and a near miss are raising concerns about the state of America's aging buildings and questions about who, if anyone, is checking their safety.

To shapeshift into the yoga pose called "destroyer of the universe," a human must gumby a leg behind their neck to point their toes directly at the sky. For non-gumbys, that feat might seem superhuman or even metahuman—is that a person or a pretzel? Now, an ultraflexible metamaterial could perform equally super feats to generate clean energy from the abundant but often overlooked energy that vibrates through our world.

Railway transportation plays a crucial role in China's comprehensive transportation system. In 2020, the China National Railway Group issued the "Outline of Railway Leading Planning for Building a Transport Power in the New Era," clearly stating the goal of completing a national railway network of approximately 200,000 kilometers and a high-speed railway network of about 70,000 kilometers by 2035.

Fake plants are moving into the 21st century. Researchers developed literal "power plants"—tiny, leaf-shaped generators that create electricity from a blowing breeze or falling raindrops—and described them in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. The team tested the energy harvesters by incorporating them into artificial plants.

Amazon is investing in US local TV network Diamond Sports Group, a major sports rights holder as the streaming giants push further into offering live sport.

The Competition Commission on Wednesday raided funeral homes and other premises associated with the industry as part of an investigation into anti-com...

In George Orwell's novel "1984," Big Brother watches citizens through two-way, TV-like telescreens to surveil citizens without any cameras. In a similar fashion, our current smart devices contain ambient light sensors, which open the door to a different threat: Hackers.

An emergency room doctor using augmented reality could save precious seconds by quickly checking a patient's vitals or records. But the doctor could also unintentionally pull information for someone else in the room, breaching privacy and health care laws.

Trade barriers can slow the world's energy transition but commerce also needs to be fair, International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol said Wednesday, as world powers tussle over the technologies key to fighting climate change.

Severe winter weather prompted the cancellation of hundreds of flights on Wednesday at Frankfurt airport, Germany's busiest, as the country faced heav...

A team of AI researchers at Microsoft working with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has used AI to develop a battery that uses less lithium. Together, they have published a paper describing their work on the arXiv preprint server.

When you use your fingerprint to unlock your smartphone, your phone is looking at a two-dimensional pattern to determine whether it's the correct fingerprint before it unlocks for you. But the imprint your finger leaves on the surface of the button is actually a 3D structure called a fingermark.

Sarah McNair-Landry and Erik Boomer go looking for whitewater and granite towers on Baffin Island – a place where the line between expedition and vacation is a thin one.

CATL, the world’s largest electric vehicle battery maker, will build a plant in Beijing, according to a document published by the Beijing Municipal

ByteDance and Alibaba have not yet reached a consensus on the terms or price of an offer by the former to buy Alibaba’s food delivery service Ele.me

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk on Jan. 14 signaled that the company is likely to showcase its eye catching Cybertruck pickup in China, a move that could

The number of merchants that sold goods with a total value over RMB 100 million increased five times year-on-year on Xiaohongshu in the past year, the

Tencent announced that its hit game Honor of Kings would resume livestreaming on Douyin (China’s TikTok sibling) five years after it was banned following a copyright infringement case.