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The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says he's alarmed by the threat of a nuclear accident at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia power plant.In an interview airing Sunday on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live, Rafael Mariano…

'ECONOMIC STUPIDITY' Arnold Vaatz, a former lawmaker for Merkel's Christian Democrats (SPD), said the decision was also intended to sway a state election in Baden Wuerttemberg where the issue was playing into the hands of the Greens. "I…

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease caused by the breakdown of cartilage that afflicts more than 35 million adults in the U.S. The exact mechanism of cartilage breakdown in osteoarthritis is unknown, but damage from mechanical…

The global number of operational atomic warheads increased in 2022, driven largely by Russia and China, a new report out Wednesday said as nuclear tensions have risen since the war in Ukraine.The nine official and unofficial nuclear powers…

ZAPORIZHZHIA: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Monday with UN atomic energy chief Rafael Mariano Grossi in southern Ukraine where they discussed the precarious situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.The plant, which is…

A further development in atomic force microscopy now makes it possible to simultaneously image the height profile of nanometre-fine structures as well as the electric current and the frictional force at solid-liquid interfaces. A team from…

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a conductive polymer coating -- called HOS-PFM -- that could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. "The advance…

Nuclear physicists have found a way to peer inside the deepest recesses of atomic nuclei, according to a new study. The finding was made possible using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New…

In principle, quantum-based devices such as computers and sensors could vastly outperform conventional digital technologies for carrying out many complex tasks. But developing such devices in practice has been a challenging problem despite…

Xbox Game Pass is adding six new titles during the first half of February, which includes Atomic Heart as a day-one title. In it, you're transported to a steampunk-ish utopian world where man and robot once used to live in harmony. A…