Articles by

Emily Conover

Tech companies want small nuclear reactors. Here’s how they’d work 

To fuel the insatiable energy appetite of artificial intelligence, tech companies are going big on small nuclear...

Radioactive beams give a real-time view of cancer treatment in mice

Cancer-busting particle beams have been caught in the act. Particle beams can provide a blast of destructive...

The discovery of tools key to machine learning wins the 2024 physics Nobel

As artificial intelligence explodes in popularity, two of its pioneers have nabbed the 2024 Nobel Prize in...

Thunderstorms churn up a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays 

Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view...

Physicists just discovered the rarest particle decay ever

It’s the rarest particle decay ever discovered. Scientists have clinched the case for a special type of...

Why this physicist is bringing thermodynamics to the quantum age

Picture Victorian London, but its skies are filled with airships. Steam-powered robots crowd the streets, mingling with...

A neutrino mass mismatch could shake cosmology’s foundations

As the youthful universe congealed under the pull of gravity, matter knotted itself into galaxies, galaxy clusters...

The Large Hadron Collider exposes quarks’ quantum entanglement

Quantum entanglement has made its way to the top. Scientists have measured the strange quantum phenomenon of...