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It's been almost two decades since a new nuclear plant opened for business in the United States. But that's about to change as construction wraps up on the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Unit 2 (WB2) plant.

ROBOTS: The robot trade is booming in China Georgina Prodhan | Business Insider/Reuters "A race by carmakers to build plants in China along with wage inflation that has eroded the...

This article co-written with Ken Goffman. One of the things that happens when you write books about the future is you get to watch your predictions fail. This is nothing...

Side-channel emissions from laptops and smartphones can be detected from a several feet away and transmit data even when not connected to the internet.

Many people get cravings for a cigarette or a glass of wine. But what about a potent desire to get tattoos or eat human ashes?

In the world of single atoms and molecules governed by chaotic fluctuations, is the spontaneous formation of Turing patterns possible -- the same ones that are responsible for the irregular yet periodic shapes of the str...

While the tornado total will climb by 2100, the number of tornadoes will also swing wildly from year to year.

Killer shrimp, creatures that indiscriminately slay other animals without eating them, may soon join the list of invasive species living in the Great Lakes, a new study finds.

Conjoined lizard twins, space bubbles and underwater eruptions are some of the cool images we found this week; check these out.