🇬🇧 The Royal Navy plans to field the DragonFire laser weapon on Type 45 destroyers by the end of 2027.

The 50 kW directed-energy system can reportedly defeat drones for around $13 per shot, providing a cost-effective response to mass drone attacks and strengthening…

That would be an awesome capability."

Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward after the 2011 earthquake.

The featherweight pair — orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away — are the biggest exoplanets found to have less density than cotton candy.

Researchers have shown that ultracold atoms can be driven into a strange new quantum state called a fractional Fermi sea, where particles organize themselves in unexpected ways. The discovery points to a new phase of matter that goes beyond established quantum…

India has launched the world’s first hydrogen production facility powered by nuclear process heat, marking a major step in clean energy innovation.

Closing wounds, burns and deep cuts isn't enough to kick-start healing. A wound needs a clean environment, free of bacterial infection and interruption. That calls for three components working together—one ...

US monazite developer Atlantic Strategic Minerals has confirmed a technically viable and rapid pathway to develop a domestic US rare earths processing facility from mineral sands.

The company's feasibility study on a proposed monazite project outlines competitive…

New entrants are filling unmet needs in air-and-missile defense.

The US government is trying to speed up the development of quantum computers so it can have one sooner

Five-month-old startup Orbital has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to deploy up to 100,000 data center satellites, aiming to bring 10 gigawatts of computing power from space to meet rising artificial intelligence demand.

A program initiated by the Trump administration has allowed small companies to rush their testing of several new nuclear reactor designs. Some worry that safety is being compromised.

China's first artificial intelligence (AI) data center supplied entirely through a direct green electricity connection has officially commenced operations in Zhongwei, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, marking a significant step in integrating renewable energy…

Studies on wastewater show that antibiotic transformation products may play an underappreciated role in driving antimicrobial resistance

A quantum simulation found a ceiling on resistivity caused by electron collisions.

Next Hydrogen will supply a specialized electrolyzer to Fusion Fuel Cycles for tritium extraction in fusion energy systems.

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to grow specialized blood vessel cells critical to retinal health for the first time.

Nature Reviews Materials - An article in Science Advances reports a MXene grid architecture that delivers a conformal, transparent and efficient antenna platform suitable for both wearable devices...